This is a hearing of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
Witnesses:
Matthew Dietrich, Executive Director, Ohio Rail Development Commission
Garrett Eucalitto, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Transportation; on behalf of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Kevin Hicks, Senior Vice President, TranSystems; on behalf of the National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association
Kristin Bevil, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, Pinsly Railroad Company; on behalf of the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee
Join fellow climate activists to sit in on the 10:15 am House Natural Resources Committee markup as they push a dangerous plan to expand oil and gas drilling on public lands. Let’s show up and make it clear that we stand against oil & gas expansion. RSVP
The Hill’s Energy & Environment Summit is set to take place on May 6, in Washington, D.C. Since Jan. 20, the White House has declared a national energy emergency, exited the Paris agreements and established the National Energy Dominance Council.
Join us as we gather leaders in government, sustainability and global energy solutions to discuss how the rapidly changing policies will affect the future of U.S. energy and the environment.
Agenda
8:15am: Registration & Networking Breakfast
9am: Welcome Remarks, Bill Sammon, SVP Editorial Content, The Hill & NewsNation
9:03am: U.S. Energy Dominance, Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) in conversation with Mike Viqueira
9:20am: Clean Energy Commitment, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) in conversation with Mike Viqueira
9:40am: Panel - Energy Policies & Priorities, Alice Hill, Lesley Jantarasami, Sean Gallagher in conversation with Rachel Frazin
10:00am: Cusp of American Energy Expansion, Heather Reams in conversation with Mike Viqueira
10:15am: In-person Coffee Break/Virtual Debrief, Alex Gangitano, The Hill’s White House Reporter & Rachel Frazin discuss takeaways from the morning session
10:30am: Panel - Conservative Youth View of Energy & the Environment, Chris Barnard, Pavan Venkatakrishnan in conversation with Rachel Frazin
10:50am: The Case for Environmental Protection, Christine Todd Whitman in conversation with Mike Viqueira
11:10am: Panel - Accelerating the Shift to Sustainable Transportation, Rebecca Higgins, Elaine Buckberg, Albert Gore in conversation with Rachel Frazin
11:45am: Event Concludes
Presented by Climate Power
Speakers:
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Co-Chair, Senate Climate Change Task Force; Member, Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), Vice Chair, House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Energy
Christine Todd Whitman, Former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); President, Whitman Strategy Group
Chris Barnard, President, American Conservation Coalition
Elaine Buckberg, Senior Fellow, Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability, Harvard University; Former Chief Economist, General Motors
Sean Gallagher, SVP – Policy, Solar Energy Industries Association
Rebecca Higgins, VP – Policy, Eno Center for Transportation
Alice Hill, Senior Fellow – Energy & Environment, Council on Foreign Relations
Lesley Jantarasami, VP – Research & Industry Strategy, Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
Albert Gore III, Executive Director, Zero Emission Transportation Association
Heather Reams, President, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions
Pavan Venkatakrishnan, Infrastructure Fellow, Institute For Progress
HOSTS:
Bill Sammon, SVP – Editorial Content, The Hill & NewsNation
Mike Viqueira, Washington Bureau Chief, NewsNation
Rachel Frazin, Energy & Environment Reporter, The Hill
Paul Dabbar, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce for global trade and technology
Dabbar is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Bohr Quantum Technology, a company developing quantum networking systems. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. During the first presidency of Donald Trump, he was a United States Department of Energy Under Secretary, serving as Under Secretary of Energy for Science. As a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, leading various energy business areas, he had over $400 billion in investment experience across all energy sectors including solar, wind, geothermal, distributed-generation, utility, LNG, pipeline, oil & gas, trading, and energy technologies, and has also led the majority of all nuclear transactions. In addition, he had a senior leadership role for the company’s commodity trading business, including power, oil and gas.
Gordon testimony: “Property losses are likely to continue to increase with demographic shift, inflation, climate change, and
regulatory costs.”
Newman testimony: “Recent years have seen a marked increase in the frequency and severity of damaging severe weather.”
Pyska testimony: “If Congress intends to uphold the goals of pre-disaster mitigation and protect communities nationwide from escalating climate risks, immediate action is needed.”
Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
The Palm Collective and Debt for Climate DC present “Exposing the Unspoken: Behind the Power 4 Southern People NOT Southern Company Movement”. A Documentary by Arm in Arm & The People’s Justice Council.
Time and time again, the dirty energy economy — the extraction and burning of fossil fuels and nuclear energy — sacrifices those most vulnerable. Profit-obsessed corporations and the politicians who do their bidding use, abuse, and discard our communities. Southern Company is at the root of a system that values shareholders and company CEOs’ bottom lines instead of the communities they serve in the Southeast across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. By weaponizing their influence and resources, they have been able to manipulate legislators to actively deny the climate crisis and dismantle our democracy and reproductive rights. They discard their toxic waste in our backyards and charge us prices we can’t afford. Company money is embedded across each state’s legislature, and they are not held accountable. As discussions are taking place about how we transition the U.S. energy future to a system that is just and accessible for all, Southern Company’s practices and the politicians that shield them should be held up as predatory and detrimental to our communities and future.
Solidarity City
5 Columbus Monument Drive Northeast, Washington, DC
The Subcommittee on Energy will hold a hearing on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at
10:15 a.m. (ET) in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Assuring Abundant, Reliable American Energy to Power Innovation.”
