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• Brad Doyle, President, American Soybean Association, Weiner, AR,
• Dr. Robert Johansson, Director of Economics and Policy Analysis, American Sugar Alliance, Alexandria, VA
• Nicole Berg, Vice President, National Association of Wheat Growers, Paterson, WA
• Chris Edgington, President, National Corn Growers Association, Saint Ansgar, IA
• Jaclyn Ford, National Cotton Council, Alapaha, GA
• Verity Ulibarri, National Sorghum Producers, Melrose, NM
• Clark Coleman, National Sunflower Association, National Barley Growers Association, U.S. Canola Association, and the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council, Bismarck, ND
• Jennifer James, USA Rice, Newport, AR
• Meredith McNair Rogers, U.S. Peanut Federation, Camilla, GA

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Hearing part 1

• Chairwoman Demings Opening Statement
• Chairman Thompson Opening Statement

• Erik A. Hooks, Deputy Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

A Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Particulate Matter Panel.

Agenda: To discuss the Draft CASAC Report on EPA’s Draft Supplement to the 2019 Integrated Science Assessment (ISA) for PM and the Draft CASAC Report on EPA’s Draft PM Policy Assessment (PA).

Want to learn about how climate advocacy campaigns are developing in states across the country – from Pennsylvania to Nebraska to Connecticut to Hawaii? Have an exciting climate policy update or development to share with a network of like-minded individuals?

Join us for our monthly State Climate Policy Network national call! This one-hour, once-a-month call is the perfect opportunity to learn about the different legislation and movements going on in states across the U.S. Legislators, advocates, and experts will join us and inform the network of what is going on in their state, and what you might be able to do to help.

For those of you joining us for the first time, the SCPN call is also an opportunity simply listen to other states’ updates and challenges. We typically have campaign leaders in 15-20 states calling in and providing updates, and dozens of people listening and asking questions on the line. You can read more about the SCPN here.

Feel free to contact Kristen Soares, our SCPN Manager, at [email protected] with any questions.

Please register and spread the word to others interested in pushing forward climate policy in their state.

The oft-repeated claim that the United States has significantly reduced its greenhouse pollution since 2005 by switching from coal to gas depends on the EPA’s official accounting that methane pollution has declined during the fracking boom, an implausible scenario.

Today, the International Energy Agency revealed in a major report that methane pollution from the fossil-fuel industry is 70 percent higher than official figures globally. Their Global Methane Tracker finds that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been seriously undercounting methane pollution. The IEA estimate of 2021 methane pollution is 77 percent higher than the EPA’s inventory:

United States methane pollution from energy sources in 2021. EPA estimate: 9,600 kT; IEA estimate: 17,000 kT

Not surprisingly, that cancels out all the purported climate benefits of switching electricity production from coal to natural gas.

Furthermore, the U.S. EPA calculates the effect of methane on global warming by using its impact over 100 years, which is about 30 times that of CO₂, instead of more scientifically defensible dynamic measures that take into account methane’s 20-year impact, which is 86 times that of CO₂.

3/7/20 Update: Russia invaded Ukraine the day after the IEA report dropped, so that may help explain why this report didn’t get too much attention. However, the oil and gas industry are claiming the invasion means we have to drill everywhere, and the Senate Energy Committee found time to attack FERC for regulating methane pollution. So I think there’s capacity to discuss this report and its shattering implications, which include the need for the United States to shut down the fracking boom as fast as humanly possible.

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Join Climate Xchange’s webinar on federal climate funding initiatives.

With the creation and continuing development of several new federal funding initiatives like the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Build Back Better, Justice40, and others, many are wondering how state-level climate action will be affected. States looking to secure funding for effective and equitable climate projects and programs must know how best to prepare for and implement these varying funding sources and guidelines, and we want to help you do just that.

Joining us to discuss these federal funding developments and the implications for states are three experts in the space. Shannon Baker-Branstetter, Director of Domestic Climate and Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress, Joseph Kane, Fellow at Brookings Metro of the Brookings Institution, and Colleen Callahan, Deputy Director at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation, will each provide insight into what states need to know about these funding initiatives and how they will affect state-level actors in securing a better, brighter future for the climate.

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The purpose of the hearing is to examine the opportunities and challenges in using “clean” hydrogen in the transportation, utility, industrial, commercial, and residential sectors.

• Dr. Sunita Satyapal, Director, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, Hydrogen Program Coordinator, U.S. Department of Energy
• Dr. Glen Richard Murrell, Executive Director, Wyoming Energy Authority
• Mike Fowler, Director, Advanced Energy Technology Research, Clean Air Task Force
• Michael J. Graff, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc.
• Brian Hlavinka, Vice President, New Energy Ventures, Corporate Strategic Development, Williams

On Tuesday, February 8th at 7pm ET, Stop the Money Pipeline is hosting its first hour-long online training on how we can build power to demand that regulators like the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency curb reckless behavior by Wall Street that is driving environmental injustice and climate chaos.

• Sharon Lavigne, Founder of RISE St. James and 2021 Goldman Prize Recipient North America
• Lisa Anne Hamilton, Attorney and Climate Law and Policy Consultant and former Adaptation Program Director for the Georgetown Climate Center
• Tracey Lewis, Policy Counsel at Public Citizen (moderator)

This event was organized by Action Center on Race and the Economy, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, Positive Money US, Public Citizen, Stop the Money Pipeline, and The Sunrise Project.

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Rescheduled from February 3rd. The purpose of the hearing is to consider the nominations of:

• Maria Duaime Robinson, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Office of Electricity)
• Dr. Joseph F. DeCarolis, to be Administrator of the Energy Information Administration
• Laura Daniel-Davis, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Land and Minerals Management)