Subcommittee
hearing
on the $186
billion
Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the United States Army.
Witnesses
General Randy A. George, Chief of Staff of the Army, Department of the
Army
Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary, Department of the Army
To prevent disruption to operational plans and maintain mission
readiness, the Department is investing $3.6 billion to adapt military
facilities to withstand increasingly challenging climate and extreme
weather conditions.
On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 2:00 p.m., in room 1324 Longworth House
Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on
Water, Wildlife and Fisheries will hold an oversight
hearing
titled “The National Wildlife Refuge System at Risk: Impacts of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service’s Proposed BIDEH
Rule.”
On February 1, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
proposed
to both revise the existing Biological Integrity, Diversity, and
Environmental Health (BIDEH) policy and implement a new rule that will
guide management of national wildlife refuges.
The Service did not anticipate the extent of climate change impacts on
refuge species and habitats or the need to clarify in regulations our
interpretation of and authority to implement the
BIDEH mandate. However, in the nearly 25 years
since enactment of the Improvement Act, refuges have begun to experience
the effects of climate change while continuing to contend with the
myriad of other anthropogenic stressors affecting fish, wildlife,
plants, and their habitats. Climate change is transforming historical
species composition and ecological function of habitats, creating new
challenges to traditional wildlife management strategies that were based
on stable, stationary baseline conditions. As the Refuge System becomes
increasingly vital to addressing the dual threats of biodiversity loss
and climate change, the Service recognizes the need to codify both
existing and new practices for maintaining
BIDEH to assist refuges in responding to these
contemporary conservation challenges. Therefore, the Service has
identified the need to propose new BIDEH
regulations and updates to the existing BIDEH
policy to accomplish these goals.
Within the Refuge System, we will manage species and habitats affected
by climate change and other anthropogenic change by using climate
change mitigation and adaptation strategies when necessary to meet
statutory requirements, fulfill refuge purposes, and ensure biological
integrity, diversity, and environmental health.
Today, heavy industry contributes 24% of greenhouse gas emissions,
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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.