Hill Heat

Business meeting agenda:

• S. 2195, Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2023
• S. 2395, Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver Reauthorization Act
• S. 1381, Coastal Habitat Conservation Act of 2023
• S. 1278, A bill to designate the federal building located at 985 Michigan Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, as the “Rosa Parks Federal Building,” and for other purposes
• 16 General Services Administration resolutions

Full committee hearing on the fiscal consequences of climate change on infrastructure.

Witnesses:

• John Bel Edwards, Governor, Louisiana
• Susan F. Tierney, Ph.D., Senior Advisor, Analysis Group
• Dr. Jesse M. Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor Of Sustainable Real Estate And Urban Planning, Tulane University
• Linda Apsey, President And CEO, ITC Holdings Corp., Ford Foundation Board of Trustees
• Alexander Herrgott, President And CEO, The Permitting Institute

ITC Holdings Corp. is the largest independent electricity transmission company in the United States. Through its regulated operating subsidiaries ITCTransmission, Michigan Electric Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and ITC Great Plains, ITC owns and operates high-voltage transmission infrastructure in Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, and in development in Wisconsin.

The purpose of this hearing is to examine opportunities for Congress to reform the process for permitting electric transmission lines, pipelines, and energy production on federal lands.

Witnesses:

Panel I

• Antonio P. Smyth, Executive Vice President – Grid Solutions & Government Affairs, American Electric Power
• Jason M. Stanek, Former Chairman, Maryland Public Service Commission
• Chad A. Teply, Senior Vice President – Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, Williams

Panel II

• Erik G. Milito, President, National Ocean Industries Association
• Pete Obermueller, President, Petroleum Association of Wyoming
• Kelly Speakes-Backman, Executive Vice President – Public Affairs, Invenergy

Remember the historic protests at Standing Rock?

Learn how that same pipeline corporation is STILL trying to punish those who dared speak out against it – and how this “SLAPP” lawsuit affects YOUR right to protest.

Join Greenpeace USA and the Protect the Protest coalition for a town hall on protecting activists from abusive lawsuits. Learn about the frivolous lawsuit filed against Greenpeace USA by Energy Transfer, the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline, for allegedly orchestrating the entire resistance movement at Standing Rock.

It isn’t just Greenpeace USA’s future that’s at stake, this is an existential threat to the social justice movement writ large. These lawsuits are attempts to intimidate any organization or individual who dares to speak out against bad corporate practices that threaten the environment, people’s livelihoods or human rights.

Join the movement to protect the right to dissent. Register here for the first WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: Virtual Town Hall on Protecting Our Right to Protest and Dissent

When:

• July 25, 2023 – 5 pm PST / 7 pm CT / 8 pm EST

Speakers:

• Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)
• Greenpeace USA Deputy General Counsel, Deepa Padmanabha
• Senior Policy Advisor, EarthRights International/Protect the Protest Coalition, Kirk Herbertson
• Ben and Jerry’s Activism Manager, Chris Miller E* sther Calhoun, Founder and former president, Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice

Cosponsors:

• Protect the Protest coalition
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Physicians for Social Responsibility – Pennsylvania
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
• The Center for Protest Law and Litigation
• DemCast
• Equation Campaign
• Amnesty International USA
• Institute for Policy Studies

Join the Green New Deal Network and our allies this Tuesday, July 25th for a rally and happy hour event with Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.)! We’ll be convening at Metrobar DC from 6pm–9pm to discuss the importance of union, environmental, and racial justice organizers uniting to overpower corporate greed.

If you’re interested in joining us, be sure to RSVP here!

The Committee on Rules will meet Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:

• H.R. 4366 – Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
• S.J. Res 9 – A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Lesser Prairie-Chicken; Threatened Status with Section 4(d) Rule for the Northern Distinct Population Segment and Endangered Status for the Southern Distinct Population Segment”.
• S.J. Res. 24 – A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Northern Long-Eared Bat”.

On Friday, July 21, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. (MST), the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight field hearing titled “Securing Supply Chains: Access to Critical Minerals in the American Southwest.” The hearing will examine the mineral reserves of the American Southwest, including the local and national costs benefits of mining in the region, ranging from national security to economics.

This hearing will be held in the Goodyear Recreation Center, at the City of Goodyear Recreation Campus, 420 S. Estrella Parkway, Goodyear, AZ.

Full committee meeting to mark up the Fiscal Year 2024 Energy and Water Development, State and Foreign Operations, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Acts.

• Markup of the “Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2024”
• Markup of the “State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024”
• Markup of the “Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024.”

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change and Manufacturing, will convene a subcommittee hearing titled “Budget Oversight of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration” on Thursday, July 20, 2023, at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Witnesses:

• Dr. Richard W. Spinrad, Ph.D., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and the NOAA Administrator
• Rear Admiral Nancy Hann, Director of the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and Director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps

Full committee hearing to receive testimony from non-federal stakeholders on the Water Resources Development Act of 2024.

Witnesses:

• Dina Aryan Zahlan P.E., Chief Harbor Engineer of the Engineering Division, Port of Los Angeles
• Joel Paulsen P.E., Executive Director, Metro Flood Diversion Authority
• Tony Pratt, Executive Director, Bay Beach Association
• Chris Blanchard, Executive Director, Cooper Consolidated