The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change

Witnesses

  • David Wallace-Wells, Editor At Large, New York Magazine, Author, The Uninhabitable Earth
  • Dr. Robert B. Litterman, Chair, Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Professor Of Economics, Columbia University
  • George R. Oliver, Chairman And CEO, Johnson Controls, Chair, Business Roundtable Energy and Environment Committee
  • Richard J. Powell, Executive Director, ClearPath Inc.
Senate Budget Committee
216 Hart

04/15/2021 at 11:00AM

The CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities

Briefing memorandum

Witnesses

Legislation: Legislation

  • H.R. 1512, the “Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act” or the “CLEAN Future Act”
  • H.R. 501, the “Climate Smart Ports Act”
  • H.R. 516, the “Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021”
  • H.R. 861, the “Alerting Localities of Environmental Risks and Threats Act of 2021”
  • H.R. 862, the “Climate Action Planning for Ports Act of 2021”
  • H.R. 2021, the “Environmental Justice for All Act”
  • H.R. 2394, the “Climate Justice Act of 2021”
  • H.R. 2396, the “Ensuring Safe Disposal of Coal Ash Act”
  • H.R. 2431, the “Voices for Environmental Justice Act”
  • H.R. 2434, the “Environmental Justice Act of 2021”
  • H.R. 2397, the “Protection from Cumulative Emissions and Underenforcement of Environmental Law Act of 2021”
House Energy and Commerce Committee
   Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee

04/15/2021 at 10:30AM

Increasing Risks of Climate Change and NOAA's Role in Providing Climate Services

Witnesses

  • Nicole LeBoeuf, Acting Assistant Administrator, National Ocean Service
  • Dr. Stephen Volz, Assistant Administrator for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, performing the duties of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
   Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee

04/15/2021 at 10:00AM

The Role of the DOE and Energy Innovation in American Economic Competitiveness

The purpose of the hearing is to examine the leading role of the Department of Energy in American energy innovation and how its research, development, demonstration, and deployment programs may be enhanced to further boost the economic competitiveness of the United States.

Witnesses:

  • Dr. Thomas Mason, Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Paul M. Dabbar, Chairman and CEO, Bohr Quantum Technologies Corp., Former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
  • Sarah Ladislaw, Managing Director of the U.S. Program, RMI
  • Dr. Lara Pierpoint, Director, Climate Actuate
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
366 Dirksen

04/15/2021 at 10:00AM