Please join the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global
Warming for a Staff Briefing on distributing emission credits under a
carbon cap-and-trade system. This briefing is open to all staff and the
public.
Speakers
- Jason Furman—Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director
of the Hamilton Project
- James Barrett—Executive Director, Redefining Progress
- Stephen Smith—Executive Director, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
House Energy Independence and Global Warming
2325 Rayburn
04/09/2008 at 03:30PM
Coal gasification can provide an efficient, clean, and versatile way to
generate electricity and other energy products from coal as an
alternative to traditional generation methods. The process allows for
the removal of pollutants such as sulfur and nitrogen compounds that
contribute to smog and acid rain, and the capability to capture carbon
dioxide without releasing it into the atmosphere. The Subcommittee will
examine coal gasification technologies, including the challenges and
advantages over traditional technologies, and the need for large scale
integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) demonstration projects
that feature carbon capture and sequestration.
Witnesses
- John Marburger III, Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
- James Childress, Executive Director, Gasification Technologies Council
- Joseph P. Strakey Jr., Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of
Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Michael J. Mudd, Chief Executive Officer, FutureGen Alliance, Inc.
- David Hawkins, Director, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense
Council
- Mr. John Novak, Executive Director, Federal and Industry Activities,
Environment and Generation, The Electric Power Research Institute
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Science, Technology, and Innovation Subcommittee
253 Russell
04/09/2008 at 02:30PM
Witnesses
- Carol M. Browner, Principal, The Albright Group,
LLC, Former Administrator, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
- Alexander B. Grannis, Commissioner, New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation
- Joan Card, Water Quality Division Director, Arizona Department of
Environmental Quality
- David P. Brand P.E., P.S., Sanitary Engineer, Madison County, State of
Ohio
- Randall P. Smith, Smith 6-S Livestock
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
04/09/2008 at 10:00AM
This Wednesday, April 9, Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and the
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will take a
look at the health of our warming planet, and how climate change affects
the health of her citizens. During a week where major public health
bodies are calling attention to the links between an unhealthy planet
and an unhealthy people, the hearing’s panel of scientists, practicing
doctors, and public health professionals will describe the various ways
climate change poses a serious public health threat.
Despite the international and national scientific consensus that climate
change impacts public health, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
has refused to state that heat-trapping carbon dioxide is a threat to
public health.
The witnesses will also address whether the United States has an
unlimited capacity to adapt to this growing public health concern, or
whether the only true preventative medicine is to reduce our greenhouse
gas emissions and stop global warming.
According to the World Health Organization, climate change is a
significant and emerging threat to public health. The
WHO estimates that changes in the Earth’s
climate may have caused at least five million cases of illness and more
than 150,000 deaths in 2000, and predict these impacts are likely to
increase in the future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) determined that climate change contributes to the global burden
of disease, premature death and other adverse health impacts due to
extreme weather events, changes in infectious disease patterns, air
quality, quality and quantity of water and food. Adverse health impacts
of climate change also include increases in heat stress, asthma,
allergies and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Howard Frumkin, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Center for Disease Control,
Director of National Center for Environmental Health, Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry
- Jonathan Patz, M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Director of Global
Environmental Health, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Georges Benjamin, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E.P. (Emeritus), Executive
Director, American Public Health Association
- Mark Jacobson, Ph.D., Director, Atmosphere and Energy Program and
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford
University
- Dana Best, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P., American Academy of Pediatrics
House Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee
04/09/2008 at 10:00AM
This hearing is the first in a series of hearings exploring emerging
themes in transportation policy and practice, the needs of our national
surface transportation system, and the reauthorization of our surface
transportation laws. The Subcommittee will continue this series by
holding hearings in the near future on the issues surrounding freight
access and goods movement, infrastructure preservation and
modernization, highway safety, mobility and connectivity of rural areas,
and other issues.
Witnesses
- Robert Puentes, Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings
Institution
- Robert D. Yaro, President of the Regional Plan Association in New York
- The Honorable Ron Sims, King County Executive, Seattle, Washington
- Jolene Molitoris, Assistant Director of the Ohio Department of
Transportation
- Michael R. Wiley, Executive Director of Sacramento Regional Transit
District
- Ron Kirby, Transportation Director of the Metropolitan Washington
Council of Governments
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Highways and Transit Subcommittee
2167 Rayburn
04/09/2008 at 10:00AM
Witnesses * The Honorable James Rispoli, Assistant Secretary for
Environmental Management, Department of Energy * The Honorable Edward
F. Sproat, III, Director of the Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy
Senate Appropriations Committee
Energy and Water Development Subcommittee
04/09/2008 at 09:30AM
Please join mountain lovers from across the country to:
Celebrate Appalachia
Join citizens in the fight to protect their communities from mountaintop
removal mining.
Reception Hosted By:
The Alliance For Appalachia
Appalachian Citizens Law Center * Appalachian Voices * Appalshop *
Coal River Mountain Watch * Heartwood * Kentuckians For The
Commonwealth * MACED * Ohio Valley
Environmental Coalition * Save Our Cumberland Mountains * Sierra Club
Environmental Justice Program * Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards
* Southwings * West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
With special thanks to:
Alaska Wilderness League, Appalachian Center for the Economy and the
Environment, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Christians for the
Mountains, EarthJustice, Environment America, Friends of the Earth,
Natural Resource Defense Council, Rainforest Action Network, and the
national Sierra Club.
RSVP to J.W. Randolph at (202) 669-3670 or
[email protected]
Alliance For Appalachia
B-354 Rayburn
04/08/2008 at 06:00PM