Spanish-Language Climate Disinformation Panel Discussion
GreenLatinos is honored to invite you to participate in a panel discussion on our most recent findings on Spanish-Language Climate Disinformation in our comunidad. This initiative seeks to share our research to understand how Spanish-Language Climate Disinformation is disseminated in our community, where it is coming from, and how we may counter it. We seek your attendance to serve as a guest and learn about this important topic. This event will occur on October 13, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The event will involve our partner, Graphika, who conducted the research, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Equis Research, and other Spanish-language disinformation experts. We hope you can attend! Can’t join us in person? RSVP to watch the webinar here!
Unidos US Conference Room, 1126 16th St NW Ste 600, Washington, DC 20036
GreenLatinos tiene el honor de invitarle a participar en un panel de discusión sobre nuestros hallazgos más recientes sobre la desinformación climática en español en nuestra comunidad. Esta iniciativa busca compartir nuestra investigación para comprender cómo se difunde la desinformación climática en español en nuestra comunidad, de dónde proviene y cómo podemos contrarrestarla. Solicitamos su asistencia para servir como invitado y conocer este importante tema. Este evento ocurrirá el 13 de octubre de 2022 a las 10:00 a. m. ET. El evento contará con la participación de nuestro socio, Graphika, que realizó la investigación, la Unión de Científicos Preocupados, Equis Research y otros expertos en desinformación en español. ¡Esperamos que puedas asistir! ¿No puedes unirte a nosotros en persona? ¡Regístrate aquí para ver el seminario web aquí!
PROMESA and LUMA Energy’s Contract (Postponed)
The Committee on Natural Resources Office of Insular Affairs will hold a hybrid oversight hearing on “PROMESA and LUMA Energy’s Contract.” Scheduled for Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building and via Cisco Webex, the hearing has been postponed because of the catastrophic damage from Hurricane Fiona.
The hearing will feature testimony from key stakeholders regarding the implementation of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) and discuss H.R. 7409 – TRUST for Puerto Rico Act to dissolve the Oversight Board. The hearing will also examine LUMA Energy’s contract to manage, operate, and rebuild Puerto Rico’s electric power transmission and distribution system.
Witnesses:
Panel I: PROMESA and H.R. 7409- Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico
- José Luis Dalmau, President, Puerto Rico Senate
- Rafael “Tatito” Hernández, Speaker, Puerto Rico House of Representatives
- David A. Skeel Jr, Chair, Financial Oversight and Management Board
- Jessica E. Méndez-Colberg, Attorney, Bufete Emmanuelli, C.S.P.
- Cecille Blondet, Executive Director, Espacios Abiertos
- Maryln Goyco-García, Puerto Rico Campaign Coordinator, Center for Popular Democracy
- Fermín Fontanés, Executive Director, Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority
- Josué Colón, Executive Director, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority
- Edison Avilés-Deliz, Chair, Puerto Rico Energy Bureau
- Wayne Stensby, President & CEO, LUMA Energy Corporation
- Ruth Santiago, Attorney & Environmental Policy Expert
- Ingrid Vila Biaggi, President, CAMBIO
Reflections on Hurricanes Maria + Harvey & the Road to Recovery
- Johanna Bozuwa, Climate and Community Project
- Ruth Santiago, Comité Diálogo Ambiental
- Arturo Massol-Deyá, Casa Pueblo
- Sandra Edwards, Coalition for Environment, Equity and Resilience
- Dr. Brett Perkison, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston School of Public Health
Appalachian Resistance Comes to DC!
Frontline communities in Appalachia – and across the country – are being used as bargaining chips in a Manchin/Schumer side deal aimed at ramping up fossil fuel projects. This is unacceptable. But let it be known, the resistance is organized and ready to bring the fight to DC!
Join frontline leaders in a rally on Sept 8th outside the Capitol to demand that U.S. Senators and Representatives stop Manchin’s dirty deal. If you are an Appalachian impacted by the climate crisis or a member of a frontline community impacted by fossil fuels please indicate your interest to attend meetings with Congress in the RSVP form.
If passed, this would gut bedrock environmental protections, threaten tribal authority, endanger public health, fast-track fossil fuel projects, cut public input and push approval for Manchin’s pet project, the Mountain Valley Pipeline. We can’t allow communities to be sacrificed to more oil and gas drilling, pipelines, petrochemical buildout and climate disasters! Join us on Sept 8th by making our voices clear: ‘We are not your sacrifice zones! #StopMVP and Manchin’s dirty deal!’
- note: ASL and Spanish translation will be made available, the location will be ADA accessible
- buses are available from Durham, NC, Christiansburg, VA, Morgantown, WV, and New York City. More info here.
Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline Action Party
The International Energy Agency has concluded that there must be no new oil, gas or coal development if the world is to reach net zero by 2050.
On September 6th at 7 pm (ET), Climate Action Now will host a free action party with four extraordinary activists battling the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and Senator Manchin’s side deal to accelerate new fossil fuel infrastructure.
Our featured guests will brief us on what’s at stake and guide us through concrete actions we can take to help stop the MVP and side deal during the party with the free Climate Action Now app.
Why September 6th? The timing is critical. First, activists will assemble at Congressional offices on Sept. 8 in Washington D.D. to lobby against the MVP and we want them to walk into offices that have already heard from a LOT of people opposing the project. Also, rumor has it that the “Manchin side-deal” will be voted on by the end of September as part of the budget package. So, we need to quickly ramp up our efforts to stop it.
About Our Featured Guests
- Crystal Cavalier-Keck is the co-founder of Seven Directions of Service with her husband. She is a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in Burlington, NC and Chair of the Environmental Justice Committee for the NAACP.
- Russell Chisholm serves as Mountain Valley Watch Coordinator for the Protect Our Water, Heritage Rights (POWHR) coalition in the campaign to stop Mountain Valley Pipeline and dangerous fossil fuel expansion through Virginia and West Virginia. The Mountain Valley Watch project documents and reports potential violations of environmental law from pipeline construction.
- Jessica Sims is the Appalachian Voices Virginia Field Coordinator. Born and raised in Central Virginia. Jessica is has worked extensively with Chesapeake Climate Action Network and the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter on their pipeline campaigns.
- Jonathan Sokolow is an attorney and activist in Reston, Virginia who served as a Staff Attorney with the Legal Aid Society of the City of New York, General Counsel to the Vermont State Employees Union. and Senior Assistant General Counsel to the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds.
About Our Co-Hosts
- Justin J. Pearson is a leader of Memphis Community Against Pollution and co-founder of Memphis Community Against the Pipeline (MCAP) which is a Black-led environmental justice organization that successfully defeated a multi-billion dollar company’s crude oil pipeline project.
- Tim Guinee, President of Climate Action Now, has been a veteran in numerous climate campaigns around the country, most notably as the Legislative Coordinator for the New York Climate Reality Chapters Coalition. Former Vice President Al Gore awarded Tim the Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award for this work on the climate crisis.
- Here’s What’s Wrong With Manchin’s Side Deal to the Inflation Reduction Act, Crystal Mello of POWHR
- No One Owes Joe Manchin Anything, Bill McKibben
Now Or Never: Game's Over
We will not stand by, watching them play games while the world burns. Everything we love is at stake. Our safety, our future, our one and only home. It’s time to leave everything on the field.
6 PM. Nationals Park.
Members of Congress accepted $11,982,170 dollars from giant fossil fuel corporations. This year alone. The baseball game itself is sponsored by Chevron and BP. But if the oligarchs think we’ll stand by, watching them play games while the world burns, then they are sorely mistaken.
Biden in the Hot Seat: People vs Fossil Fuels Movement Call to Action
We are closer than ever before to a climate emergency declaration and ramping up executive actions to tackle the climate crisis. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for our coalition and the broader People vs Fossil Fuels movement. Register here for the movement call on Tuesday July 26th.
Climate Emergency Day
On Friday July 22, we will officially have less than 7 years to act to keep global warming below 1.5°C. Global commitments from government leaders and industry are not on track to meet this deadline. Join people around the world as we acknowledge this profound moment, and recommit to a rapid, bold transition away from fossil fuels. The first official “Climate Emergency Day” is a moment for you to speak out and demand action.
Nominations of David Applegate to be Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, Carmen Cantor to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular and International Affairs, and Evelyn Wang to be Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
The purpose of the business meeting is to consider the nominations of:
- Dr. David Applegate to be Director of the United States Geological Survey;
- Ambassador Carmen G. Cantor to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Insular and International Affairs); and
- Dr. Evelyn Wang to be Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Department of Energy.
The meeting will be immediately followed by a hearing to examine short term and long terms solutions to extreme drought in the western United States.