Climate science, policy, politics, and action
Full committee hearing.
Nominee:
Dennis Kirk, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, one of the associate directors of Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and a co-Project 2025 chapter on central personnel agencies, was installed in the Department of Interior’s inspector general office in August.
Senate Cloture Vote on Motion to Proceed (H.R. 2347) on BAAJA (S. 5653). Debate begins at 3 pm, vote scheduled for 5:30 pm. First of the two 60-vote-threshold votes required for passage.
Tell the Senate: Strike Title II. Protect Section 106.
The Senate’s permitting bill, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), would gut Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and put the places that tell America’s story at risk: cemeteries, battlefields, sacred sites, and the landmarks where history happened.
For sixty years, the National Historic Preservation Act has helped protect the places that tell America’s stories: Tribal sacred sites, historic neighborhoods, battlefields, burial grounds, landmarks, and the places where ordinary people made extraordinary history.
Now, those protections face one of the gravest threats in their history.
As the Senate prepares to consider legislation that would dismantle the National Historic Preservation Act, 106 Strong is calling Americans to gather at the U.S. Capitol on November 9 to stand for our history, our communities, Tribal Nations, and our right to be heard.
We are 1,000 organizations and Tribal Nations representing more than nine million Americans. We come from every corner of the country, every kind of community, and many different backgrounds. We are united by a simple conviction:
Our history belongs to all of us. No administration or Congress should be able to destroy it without listening to the people whose lives and communities it defines.
On November 9, we will bring that message directly to the nation’s capital. We invite Tribal citizens, preservationists, historians, architects, archaeologists, museum professionals, students, community advocates, and everyone who cares about America’s heritage to join us.
Scheduled guest speakers include:
Come to Washington. Bring your colleagues. Bring your friends. Bring the stories of the places you love.
We will gather peacefully, stand together, and call on Congress to reject legislation that weakens protections for America’s historic and cultural places.
Today, November 9, at 11 a.m. ET/9:00 a.m. MT, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, will host a press conference urging their Senate colleagues to pass the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA). The Senate is slated to vote on the legislation Monday evening.
The senators will cite studies from industry groups Rhodium, Solar Energy Industries Association, and Grid Strategies, none of which are studies of the final bill text, which was released Saturday.
The senators will not cite Kevin Kircher’s independent analysis.
Oil Change International has published a critique of the Rhodium analysis.
Rhodium isn’t looking at what BAAJA will do for fossil-fuel exports. And their assumptions, including good-faith implementation by the Trump regime, essentially force the outcome of their models. Rhodium’s public modeling, as opposed to the modeling they do for industry clients, which include data center developers and the LNG industry, have been notoriously wrong about fossil-fuel growth.
Join us for an urgent protest to send a message to Senator Schumer and Representative Jeffries: Stop the Dirty Data Center Deal!
Congress is poised to consider legislation that would drive a massive buildout of hyperscale AI data centers and the fossil fuel infrastructure to power them.
The “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026” rolls back key environmental laws, all but ensuring ensuring that data center and infrastructure projects are approved regardless of community opposition.
Schumer and Jeffries must block this cynical industry-backed effort to force data centers on America.
We’ll start outside of Schumer’s apartment building at 9:00 a.m., after which we’ll walk to Jeffries’ office at 55 Hanson Place arriving at 10:00 a.m.
Event sponsors: New York Communities for Change, Food & Water Watch, Climate Defenders, 350Brooklyn, Indivisible Brooklyn, Climate Families NYC (list in formation)
Post-election, Food & Water Watch is prepared to act. Whether it’s passing policies at the local and state levels or pushing for federal legislation together, we will continue to organize to protect our communities and our planet.
Join us as we break down what the election results mean for food, water, and climate policy, lay out our plans for the future, and share how YOU can impact the fight for a livable future for all.
Join the America the Beautiful For All coalition for a briefing and action session on the Senate industrial expediting bill (S. 5653) and the lame duck Congress.
Hear policy experts from across the coalition share what this bill would do, including what it would change for Tribal consultation, the Clean Water Act, endangered species, public lands, and our ocean. You’ll leave with insights on how we can make our collective action count in the weeks ahead.
Speakers:
We all deserve clean water and a say in what happens in our own backyards. But Congress is fast-tracking a new bill that would severely weaken fundamental environmental laws including the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Join us for a community call-in action webinar to learn how the so-called “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act” threatens our communities and how we can rally together to stop this devastating proposal.
Protect History: Stop the Arch
Testify Against The Arch! Outdoor (near Memorial Circle) and Indoor (location TBD) or Virtually from your own home
Join us for the Final NCPC (National Capital Planning Commission) Vote on November 5. This will be a virtual event but we want to hold our own event and folks can testify virtually at the NCPC meeting but in person at a location we choose. You can testify virtually from your home, or join us in community at an indoor location (TBD), as well as an outdoor spot near Memorial Circle.
November 5, Opportunity for Testimony Against the Arch at an NCPC Meeting: The Nov 5 NCPC agenda has been confirmed, and the meeting will be held virtually due to the anticipated large volume of speakers.
If you want to speak, you must click the REGISTER TO SPEAK AT A MEETING link. Individuals are allotted a 3-minute speaking time. You do not have to submit a comment or attach a pdf file. The meeting starts at 1, but the first speaker likely won’t be until close to 1:30 or 2, and last speaker could be quite late, depending on how many are signed up.
This is your opportunity to let the Commissioners know how The People feel about this Arch.
We will be set up for those who are registered to speak at a location TBD or you can speak anywhere virtually.
Third Act DMV hopes to filibuster this meeting! So we need 100+ people to sign up for a 3-minute speaking window. You will be delivering your remarks virtually.
About: Third Act DMV has been battling against the vainglorious Arch with rallies, pickets, vigils, comment letters, and testimony. Now we are asking Third Actors across the land to join the fight. And we are sounding the alarm against a threat far wider than one grotesque attempt to Trumpify Arlington National Cemetery.
At the last two meetings where we had lots of speakers, it was clear that the Commissioners are not listening to us, but we need to be heard.
Either way, we need your help to get our Stop the Arch message across to the NCPC.
Please check out our regularly updated Cheat Sheet for trainings, vigil times, and any rapid response that we will be needing.
To discuss what the election means for AI, the tech lobby, data centers and beyond in greater detail, Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine, will be joined by Molly White of Citation Needed and Tech Influence Watch, Dave Karpf, a professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, (and author of the forthcoming book Vaporware, Inc), and Sophie Song, a Data Center Policy Fellow at the AI Now Institute. We’ll have a roundtable chat about what did and didn’t go down during this historic election, and what we should be looking out for moving forward.
Speakers: