The Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold a Business
Meeting to consider the following item: Amendment in the Nature of a
Substitute, Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, S.
1733
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
11/03/2009 at 09:00AM
_Witnesses_
- Linda Adams, Secretary, California Environmental Protection Agency
- Dave Johnson, Organizing Director, Laborers’ Union Eastern Region,
Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA)
- J. Stephan Dolezalek, Managing Director, VantagePoint Venture Partners
- David Hawkins, Director, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense
Council
- Eugene Trisko, Attorney at Law, On behalf of the United Mine Workers
of America
- Charlie Smith, President & Chief Executive Officer, CountryMark
- Paul Cicio, Executive Director, Industrial Energy Consumers of America
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
10/29/2009 at 03:00PM
_Witnesses_
- John Podesta, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for
American Progress
- Ned Helme, President, Center for Clean Air Policy
- Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute
- Iain Murray, Vice-President for Strategy, Competitive Enterprise
Institute
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
10/29/2009 at 01:00PM
_Witnesses_
- Sherwood Boehlert, Co-Chair, Bipartisan Policy Center’s National
Transportation Policy Project
- William Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association
- Mike McKeever, Executive Director, Sacramento Area Council of
Governments (SACOG)
- Barbara J. Windsor, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hahn
Transportation, Inc.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
10/29/2009 at 11:30AM
_Witnesses_
- Preston Chiaro, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Product Group, Rio
Tinto
- John Rowe, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon
Corporation
- Dr. Willett Kempton, Professor, Marine Policy, University of Delaware
- Bob Winger, President, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers,
Local 11
- Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund
- Mike Carey, President, Ohio Coal Association
- Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
10/29/2009 at 09:30AM
This hearing was originally scheduled for October 15.
Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) of the Select Committee on Energy
Independence and Global Warming announced that he will be holding an
investigative hearing into the fraudulent letters sent to Congress on
clean energy and climate legislation. The Select Committee has now
discovered more than a dozen fraudulent letters were sent to several
members of Congress as part of an “Astroturf” campaign run by the firm,
Bonner & Associates, and contracted by the American Coalition for Clean
Coal Electricity. This campaign was designed to influence members of
Congress on the House-passed Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill.
The hearing will feature some of the central figures in the controversy,
including victims of the fraud. The fraudulent letters were staged to
appear as if they were sent by groups representing senior citizens,
minorities and veterans.
While the hearing will focus on the specific events surrounding this
fraud on Congress, the practice of “Astroturf” – corporate-funded
activities that create the false appearance of a true grassroots
movement – has come to the fore in American political discourse
surrounding the debates over health care and energy legislation.
Witnesses
- Jack Bonner, Bonner & Associates
- Steve Miller, President and CEO, American
Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
- Lisa M. Maatz, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations,
American Association of University Women
- Hilary O. Shelton, Director and Senior Vice President for Advocacy and
Policy, NAACP Washington Bureau
House Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee
1100 Longworth
10/29/2009 at 09:30AM
_Witnesses_
- Shari T. Wilson, Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment
- Ronald E. Young, President, California Association of Sanitation
Agencies
- Dr. Peter C. Frumhoff, Chief Scientist, Climate Campaign, Union of
Concerned Scientists
- Larry J. Schweiger, President and Chief Executive Officer, National
Wildlife Federation
- Fawn Sharp, President, Quinault Indian Nation
- Jim Sims, President and Chief Executive Officer, Western Business
Roundtable
- Kenneth P. Green, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
10/28/2009 at 02:00PM
_Witnesses_
- David Crane, President and Chief Executive Officer,
NRG Energy, Inc.
- Ralph Izzo, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Public
Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (PSEG)
- Kevin Law, President and Chief Executive Officer, Long Island Power
Authority
- Nathaniel Keohane, Director of Economic Policy and Analysis,
Environmental Defense Fund
- Joel Bluestein, Senior Vice President, ICF
International
- Barry Hart, Chief Executive Officer, Association of Missouri Electric
Cooperatives
- Dustin Johnson, Commissioner, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
10/28/2009 at 01:00PM
_Witnesses_
- John Warner, United States Senator (Retired)
- Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans,
and Forces, United States Department of Defense
- Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn USN (Ret.),
Member, Military Advisory Board Center for Naval Analyses
- Major General Robert H. Scales (Ret.), Drew Sloan Fellow, Truman
National Security Project
- Lieutenant Colonel James Jay Carafano (Ret.), Deputy Director, Kathryn
and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, Director,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, The
Heritage Foundation
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
10/28/2009 at 11:00AM