President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.
As we face the worsening climate emergency, frontline communities have
been fighting the fossil fuel projects which threaten their health and
homes for generations. While our government has largely ignored their
demands, climate chaos has intensified across the globe. The Glasgow UN
climate summit in November is the “last, best chance” for our government
to change course and ensure a just, renewable energy future for all of
us.
This is not a single “day of action”, but instead a wave of action from
October 11th – 15th that will involve civil disobedience to put
sustained pressure and a bigger spotlight on our demands. If that
involves risking arrest, we are prepared and willing to take that risk
and deal with the consequences. We believe that the risks of inaction
are far greater than the risks of taking action.
All components of the actions — trainings the night before and the start
of the actions themselves — will be at McPherson Square in downtown DC.
The McPherson Square Metro station is on the orange, blue, and silver
lines; Farragut North (red line) is also very close by.
President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.
As we face the worsening climate emergency, frontline communities have
been fighting the fossil fuel projects which threaten their health and
homes for generations. While our government has largely ignored their
demands, climate chaos has intensified across the globe. The Glasgow UN
climate summit in November is the “last, best chance” for our government
to change course and ensure a just, renewable energy future for all of
us.
This is not a single “day of action”, but instead a wave of action from
October 11th – 15th that will involve civil disobedience to put
sustained pressure and a bigger spotlight on our demands. If that
involves risking arrest, we are prepared and willing to take that risk
and deal with the consequences. We believe that the risks of inaction
are far greater than the risks of taking action.
All components of the actions — trainings the night before and the start
of the actions themselves — will be at McPherson Square in downtown DC.
The McPherson Square Metro station is on the orange, blue, and silver
lines; Farragut North (red line) is also very close by.
President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.
As we face the worsening climate emergency, frontline communities have
been fighting the fossil fuel projects which threaten their health and
homes for generations. While our government has largely ignored their
demands, climate chaos has intensified across the globe. The Glasgow UN
climate summit in November is the “last, best chance” for our government
to change course and ensure a just, renewable energy future for all of
us.
This is not a single “day of action”, but instead a wave of action from
October 11th – 15th that will involve civil disobedience to put
sustained pressure and a bigger spotlight on our demands. If that
involves risking arrest, we are prepared and willing to take that risk
and deal with the consequences. We believe that the risks of inaction
are far greater than the risks of taking action.
All components of the actions — trainings the night before and the start
of the actions themselves — will be at McPherson Square in downtown DC.
The McPherson Square Metro station is on the orange, blue, and silver
lines; Farragut North (red line) is also very close by.
President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.
As we face the worsening climate emergency, frontline communities have
been fighting the fossil fuel projects which threaten their health and
homes for generations. While our government has largely ignored their
demands, climate chaos has intensified across the globe. The Glasgow UN
climate summit in November is the “last, best chance” for our government
to change course and ensure a just, renewable energy future for all of
us.
This is not a single “day of action”, but instead a wave of action from
October 11th – 15th that will involve civil disobedience to put
sustained pressure and a bigger spotlight on our demands. If that
involves risking arrest, we are prepared and willing to take that risk
and deal with the consequences. We believe that the risks of inaction
are far greater than the risks of taking action.
All components of the actions — trainings the night before and the start
of the actions themselves — will be at McPherson Square in downtown DC.
The McPherson Square Metro station is on the orange, blue, and silver
lines; Farragut North (red line) is also very close by.
Legislative
hearing
to receive testimony on S. 648 & S. 1911.
S.
648,
Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021
S.
1911,
Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes of the Fort Belknap Indian
Community Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021
S. 648 directs the Department of the Interior to deposit specified
interest payments into the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Water Rights
Development Fund and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Operation and
Maintenance Fund. These funds were established under the water rights
settlement agreement for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
Reservation.
S. 1911 modifies and ratifies a specified water rights settlement
agreement entered into by the United States, Montana, and the Fort
Belknap Indian Community (i.e., the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes
of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana).
The bill requires the community’s water rights to be held in trust for
the benefit of the community and its allottees. The community must enact
a tribal water code to regulate its water rights.
Among other activities, the Department of the Interior must
negotiate with Montana for the transfer of specified parcels of state
land located on and off the reservation,
hold transferred land in trust for the benefit of the community,
allocate 20,000 acre-feet per year of stored water from Lake Elwell,
establish a settlement trust fund, and
enter into a cost-share agreement with Montana to contribute to the
design and construction of the Peoples Creek Dam and Reservoir to
support mitigation activities.
The bill requires the Bureau of Reclamation to modify the operating
procedures of the Milk River Project to ensure that the Fresno Reservoir
is operated in accordance with the agreement.
The bill also outlines certain waivers, releases, and retention of
claims under the settlement agreement.
On Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. (EDT), the Committee on
Natural Resources Office of Insular Affairs will hold a remote Full
Committee Oversight
Hearing
titled, “PREPA Post Implementation of the LUMA
Transmission and Distribution Contract.” This hearing will take place
via Cisco WebEx and will be streamed on YouTube.
This
hearing
will examine various perspectives on emerging contaminants, so-called
forever chemicals, and their impacts on public health and water quality.
Specifically, the subcommittee will look at the growing concern in
surface waters, their effects or potential effects on human and aquatic
ecosystems, and the Clean Water Act’s framework for addressing
contaminants in surface waters.
Witnesses:
Dr. Elizabeth Southerland, Former Director of Science and Technology
U.S. EPA Office of Water
Chris Kennedy, Town Manager, Town of Pittsboro, North Carolina
Dr. Elise Granek, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and
Management Department, Portland State University
Charles Moore, Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research
Katie Huffling, Executive Director, Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy
Environment
Dr. James Pletl, Director, Water Quality, Hampton Roads Sanitation
District, Virginia Beach, VA
On Wednesday, October 6, at 10:00 AM ET, the
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold an oversight
hearing
to examine the response by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Hurricane
Ida.
Witnesses:
Major General William H. “Butch” Graham, Deputy Commanding General for
Civil and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Brigadier General Thomas J. Tickner, Commanding General, North
Atlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Colonel Stephen F. Murphy, Commander, New Orleans District, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers
The purpose of this
hearing
is to receive testimony on the following bills:
S.
336, to
amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to
reauthorize the Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway, and for other
purposes;
S.
378, to
reauthorize the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, the Lackawanna
Valley National Heritage Area, the Delaware and Lehigh National
Heritage Corridor, the Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area,
and the Oil Region National Heritage Area, and for other purposes;
S.
511, to
establish the Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area in
the State of Illinois, and for other purposes;
S.
635, to
reauthorize The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor and the
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, and for other
purposes;
S.
654, to
reauthorize the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, and for other
purposes;
S.
787, to
amend the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area Act to extend the
authority of the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to
the local coordinating entity for the Atchafalaya National Heritage
Area under that Act;
S.
825, to
establish the Southern Maryland National Heritage Area, and for other
purposes;
S.
972, to
reauthorize the Essex National Heritage Area, and for other purposes;
S.
990, to
reauthorize the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area;
S.
1004,
to extend the authorization of the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage
Area, to designate the Great Basin National Heritage Route in the
State of Nevada as the “Great Basin National Heritage Area”, to
designate the Great Basin Heritage Route Partnership as the “Great
Basin Heritage Area Partnership”, to extend the authorization of the
Great Basin National Heritage Area, and for other purposes;
S.
1112,
to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Chisholm
National Historic Trail and the Western National Historic Trail, and
for other purposes.
S.
1224,
to reauthorize, and increase the total funding cap for, the America’s
Agricultural Heritage Partnership, to redesignate the America’s
Agricultural Heritage Partnership as the “Silos & Smokestacks National
Heritage Area”, and for other purposes;
S.
1258,
to extend the authorization of each of the National Coal Heritage Area
and the Wheeling National Heritage Area in the State of West Virginia,
and for other purposes;
S.
1284 /
H.R.
2497,
to establish the Amache National Historic Site in the State of
Colorado as a unit of the National Park System, and for other
purposes;
S.
1318,
to reauthorize the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area;
S.
1329,
to amend the National Aviation Heritage Area Act to reauthorize the
National Aviation Heritage Area, and for other purposes;
S.
1620,
to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the city of
Eunice, Louisiana, certain Federal land in the State of Louisiana, and
for other purposes;
S.
1643,
to establish the Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area, and for
other purposes;
S.
1942,
to standardize the designation of National Heritage Areas, and for
other purposes;
S.
1954,
to reauthorize the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National
Heritage Corridor, and for other purposes;
S.
2158,
to extend the authorization of the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory
Commission;
S.
2296,
to establish the Northern Neck National Heritage Area, and for other
purposes;
S.
2438,
to modify the boundary of the Cane River Creole National Historical
Park in the State of Louisiana, and for other purposes;
S.
2441,
to establish in the States of North Carolina and South Carolina the
Southern Campaign of the Revolution National Heritage Corridor, and
for other purposes;
S.
2482,
to amend the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership Act of
2006 to reauthorize the Champlain Valley National Heritage
Partnership, and for other purposes;
S.
2490,
to establish the Blackwell School National Historic Site in Marfa,
Texas, and for other purposes;
S.
2580,
to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture to make free National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands
Passes available to members of the Armed Forces, and for other
purposes;
S.
2648,
to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to reauthorize
the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area in the State
of Alaska, and for other purposes; and
S.
2763,
to extend the authorization for the MotorCities National Heritage Area
in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes.
Witnesses:
Joy Beasley, Associate Director of Cultural Resources, Partnerships,
and Science, National Park Service
Sara Capen, Chairwoman, Alliance of National Heritage Areas, Executive
Director, Niagara Falls National Heritage Area, Inc.
President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.