Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
The budget includes a $56.0M and 34 FTE
increase to support a variety of FEMA climate
resilience initiatives, including the Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk
Analysis Program, FEMA’s Building Codes
Strategy, Climate Adaptation, and Environmental Planning and Historical
Preservation process improvements.
Samantha Power, Administrator, United States Agency for International
Development
The State Department’s FY 2025 Request of $99
million for cross-cutting climate change programs includes an additional
$18 million over FY 2023 Actual to meet the vision and mandates laid out
by the Administration and Congress, as well as sustain a leadership role
for climate solutions on the global stage. (By way of comparison, the
programs for competition with China total $4 billion.)
On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. (ET) in 2128 Rayburn House
Office Building, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a
hearing
entitled: “Beyond Scope: How the SEC’s Climate
Rule Threatens American Markets.”
Elad Roisman, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
LLP and former Commissioner and Acting
Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Robert Stebbins, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
LLP and former General Counsel of the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Chris Wright, Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Energy
Joshua T. White, Assistant Professor of Finance, Owen Graduate School
of Management, Vanderbilt University
Legislation
H. J. Res.
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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5,
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Securities and
Exchange Commission relating to “The Enhancement and Standardization
of Climate- Related Disclosures for Investors”
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 to
adopt an 886-page
rule
entitled “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related
Disclosures for Investors”. The rule changes existing disclosure
obligations for public companies. The rule imposes new obligations
including but not limited to scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (“GHG”)
emissions; climate-related risks; board oversight of climate risks;
management’s assessment and management of climate-related risks;
climate-related targets and goals; and financial statement effects of
certain climate related risks.
Omar Hammad, Environmental Policy Analyst, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress
William “Bill” Obermann, Air Program Supervisor, Department of Public
Health and Environment, City and County of Denver
Anne Austin, Former Trump Administration Principal Deputy Assistant
Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Austin Legal & Public
Affairs [Minority Witness]
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science
and Transportation, will convene a full committee
hearing on
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 10:00 AM EDT to
consider the following presidential renominations:
Nominees:
Jennifer Homendy, to be Chair of the National Transportation Safety
Board (PN1498, PN1499) (reappointment)
Patrick Fuchs, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board
(PN1372) (reappointment)
The National Transportation Safety
Board is an independent federal
agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation
accident in the United States and significant events in the other modes
of transportation—railroad, transit, highway, marine,
pipeline,
and commercial space.
Samantha Power, Administrator, United States Agency for International
Development
The State Department’s FY 2025 Request of $99
million for cross-cutting climate change programs includes an additional
$18 million over FY 2023 Actual to meet the vision and mandates laid out
by the Administration and Congress, as well as sustain a leadership role
for climate solutions on the global stage. (By way of comparison, the
programs for competition with China total $4 billion.)
Senate Appropriations Committee
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee
Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the
Incarcerated
will be a critical examination of how climate change impacts people who
are incarcerated. Many jails and prisons are inadequately equipped to
handle extreme weather, exposing people who are confined within them to
unique health vulnerabilities.
This
event
will highlight how the effects of climate-related events on prisons
impact not only people confined in them but also people who work in
them. It will describe challenges like inadequate cooling systems in the
face of rising temperatures and the risks posed by natural disasters to
these facilities. Addressing jail/prison infrastructure law and policy
in the era of climate change, speakers will consider what policy changes
at the intersection of environmental justice and prison reform would
help mitigate risks and increase awareness.
Panelists
Co-Moderator: Stephen P. Wood, MS, ACNP-BC –
Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
at Harvard Law School; Northeastern University
Co-Moderator: Jeremiah Goulka, LL.B., JD – Founder and Director,
Climate and Public Safety (CAPS) and the
SHIELD Training Initiative, Northeastern
University
Lt. Col. Cathy Fontenot, MS – Chief of Corrections, East Baton Rouge
(LA) Parish Sheriff’s Office
Laurie Levenson, JD – Professor of Law, David W. Burcham Chair in
Ethical Advocacy, and Founding Director of the Fidler Institute on
Criminal Justice, LMU Loyola Law School
