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This hearing will explore how investments in transportation infrastructure can curb harmful pollution, increase climate resilience, redress historical inequities, and increase community quality of life.

Witnesses:

• Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Transportation. Kelliher has served as the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) since January 2019. She previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives for 12 years, including four years as Speaker. Prior to joining MnDOT, Commissioner Kelliher spent eight years as the president of the Minnesota High Tech Association, chaired the Governor’s Broadband Task Force, and was a member of the Minnesota State Board of Directors.
• Bill Van Amburg, Executive Vice President, CALSTART. Van Amburg oversees all domestic and global work in advanced technologies for medium- and heavy-duty truck and off-road equipment at CALSTART, a national nonprofit focused on accelerating clean transportation. His teams operate projects such as incentive and demonstration programs in multiple states, including Illinois, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and California, as well as the High-efficiency Truck Users Forum (HTUF) with the U.S. Army.
• Beth Osborne, Director, Transportation for America. Osborne leads an alliance of elected, business, and civic leaders from across the country working to ensure that states and the federal government invest in smart, homegrown, locally-driven transportation solutions. She was previously at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), where she served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy managing the TIGER Discretionary Grant program, the Secretary’s livability initiative, and the development of the Administration’s surface transportation authorization proposal.
• Robert Bryce, Visiting Fellow, The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. Bryce is a Texas-based author, journalist, podcaster, film producer, and public speaker. He spent 12 years as a reporter for the Austin Chronicle. From 2006 to 2010, he was the managing editor of the Houston-based Energy Tribune. From 2010 to September 2019, he was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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On June 30th, we are calling on climate activists to join us at the White House to demand President Biden act now to stop dirty fossil fuel projects in all our communities, from Line 3 to the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and beyond, and call on Congress to prioritize climate justice, racial justice, Indigenous rights, housing justice and transit justice in the infrastructure discussions.

While fires rage out west and storms threaten the Gulf, President Biden is busy meeting with Republicans and failing us all on climate. If he wants to be a climate champion, time is running out, just as it is running out for our communities. There is no room for compromise when it comes to the very survival of our planet.

Please join us on June 30th to be a part of the movement that changes the trajectory of this administration so that the White House stands up for the rights of our communities instead of doing the bidding of corporate polluters.

Our demands for President Biden are simple and clear:

PROTECT PEOPLE, NOT POLLUTERS.

Use your executive authority to stop approving fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency. Fossil fuel pipelines, infrastructure, exports, and leases fuel the climate emergency, pollute in Black & Brown communities, and violate treaty rights. Act now to end the era of fossil fuel production, protect our communities, and Build Back Fossil Free.

PASS A CLIMATE JUSTICE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL.

Use your bully pulpit to make sure Congress includes strong climate, Indigenous rights, housing justice, racial justice, and transit justice commitments in an infrastructure bill. Build on the Thrive Agenda, to build a climate care economy, good jobs for all, an end to fossil fuel subsidies and a renewable energy standard!

Led by Indigenous Environmental Network and ShutDownDC, with many partner organizations.

H.R. 3684: Text of Legislation

• H.R. 3684
• H. Rept. 117-70—Report from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to accompany H.R. 3684
• Rules Committee Print 117-8—Showing the text of H.R. 3684, as ordered reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, with modifications.
• Section-by-Section Analysis of Rules Committee Print 117-8
• Rules Committee Print 117-9 (Drinking Water/Clean Water Provisions)-Showing the text of H.R. 1915, as reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and H.R. 3291 and H.R. 3293, as ordered reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce, each with modifications.
• List of Submitted Amendments

On Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 1:00 P.M. (EDT), the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife will hold a virtual, fully remote legislative hearing on the following bills:

• H.R. 1851 (Rep. Matthew Rosendale, R-MT), To establish a Federal cost share percentage for the Milk River Project in the State of Montana. St. Mary’s Reinvestment Act.
• H.R. 1869 (Rep. Mark Amodei, R-NV), To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to make a technical correction to the water rights settlement for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, and for other purposes. Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021.
• H.R. 3877 (Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-CA), To amend the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to authorize additional projects related to the Salton Sea, and for other purposes. Salton Sea Projects Improvements Act.
• H.R. 4099 (Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-CA), Large Scale Water Recycling Project Investment Act.

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Briefing memo

Legislation

• H.R. 1512, the “Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act” or the “CLEAN Future Act”
• H.R. 1514, the “Prevent Outages with Energy Resiliency Options Nationwide Act” or the “POWER ON Act”
• H.R. 2678, the “Interregional Transmission Planning Improvement Act of 2021”
• H.R. 4027, the “Efficient Grid Interconnection Act of 2021”

Witnesses

Panel I

• Patricia Hoffman, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity, U.S. Department of Energy

Panel II

• Susan Tierney, Ph. D., Senior Advisor, Analysis Group
• Rob Gramlich, Founder and President, Grid Strategies, LLC
• Lee Anderson, Government Affairs Director, Utility Workers Union of America
• Tony Clark, Senior Advisor, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP

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Witnesses

• Dr. Craig B. Clements, Professor of Meteorology and Director of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center at San José State University
• Dr. Jessica McCarty, Assistant Professor of Geography and Director of the Geospatial Analysis Center at Miami University
• George Geissler, State Forester and Deputy for Wildland Fire and Forest Health and Resiliency at the Washington Department of Natural Resources
• Fire Chief Erik Litzenberg (Ret.), Chair of the Wildland Fire Policy Committee at the International Association of Fire Chiefs

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