H.R.3508,
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 39 West Main Street, in Honeoye Falls, New York, as the
CW4 Christian J. Koch Memorial Post Office.
H.R.5271,
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 2245 Rosa L Parks Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee, as the Thelma
Harper Post Office Building.
H.R.5809,
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 1801 Town and Country Drive in Norco, California, as the Lance
Corporal Kareem Nikoui Memorial Post Office Building.
H.R.5900,
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 2016 East 1st Street in Los Angeles, California, as the Marine
Corps Reserve PVT Jacob Cruz Post Office.
H.R.6386,
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 450 West Schaumburg Road in Schaumburg, Illinois, as the Veterans
of Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial Post Office Building.
H.R.6614,
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 4744 Grand River Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, as the Rosa Louise
McCauley Parks Post Office Building.
H.R.6825,
Nonprofit Security Grant Program Improvement Act of 2022
H.R.700,
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 303 East Mississippi Avenue in Elwood, Illinois, as the Lawrence M.
Larry Walsh Sr. Post Office.
H.R.7077,
Empowering the U.S. Fire Administration Act
H.R.91,
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 810 South Pendleton Street in Easley, South Carolina, as the
Private First Class Barrett Lyle Austin Post Office Building.
H.R.92,
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 110 Johnson Street in Pickens, South Carolina, as the Specialist
Four Charles Johnson Post Office.
S.4611,
A bill to improve services for trafficking victims by establishing, in
Homeland Security Investigations, the Investigators Maintain
Purposeful Awareness to Combat Trafficking Trauma Program and the
Victim Assistance Program.
S.4623,
A bill to advance Government innovation through leading-edge
procurement capability, and for other purposes.
The Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act, cosponsored by Rob Portman
(R-Ohio) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), would establish an interagency
committee on global catastrophic risk, including “severe global
pandemics, nuclear war, asteroid and comet impacts, supervolcanoes,
sudden and severe changes to the climate, and intentional or accidental
threats arising from the use and development of emerging technologies.”
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Join
Evergreen Action as we chat with Senator Ed Markey, Representative
Pramila Jayapal, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. of the Hip Hop Caucus
about the climate provisions in the new Inflation Reduction Act.
Evergreen Action Senior Policy Advisor Dr. Leah Stokes will moderate a
conversation about the trade-offs and historic investments contained in
the historic bill.
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.
On Thursday, July 28, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. ET, Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of
the Subcommittee on Environment, will hold a hybrid
hearing
to examine the health harms associated with leaded aviation fuel and its
impacts on American communities and the environment.
Airborne lead exposure from aviation
fuel
is an urgent yet little-known health crisis impacting millions of people
who live near general aviation airports in the United States. Lead is
highly toxic and a probable carcinogen, causing health effects such as
brain damage, learning disabilities, reduced fertility, nerve damage,
and death. Despite the dangers associated with it, many airplanes
continue to utilize leaded fuel, putting the health and safety of
Americans—especially children—at risk.
Despite clear evidence of harm and the existence of unleaded fuel
alternatives, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have failed for many years to take
meaningful action to curb the use of leaded aviation fuel.
Simultaneously, the fossil fuel and aviation industries have lobbied to
delay efforts to phase out leaded fuel.
In the United States, general aviation airports are often located in
low-income communities and communities of color, causing those
communities to suffer disproportionately from the health impacts of
leaded aviation fuel. Lead exposure from aviation fuel is an ongoing
environmental justice crisis. This hearing will examine the impacts of
leaded aviation fuel on American communities and on the environment to
better understand the urgency of permanently phasing out the dangerous
substance.
Witnesses:
Marciela Lechuga, Resident, Reid-Hillview Airport Buffer Zone
Cindy Chavez, Supervisor, County of Santa Clara (California)
Bruce Lanphear, Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
The Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States (SCIP) will
hold a hybrid legislative
hearing
on the following bill:
H.R.
5549
(Rep. Don Young, R-AK), To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement
Act to authorize advance appropriations for the Indian Health Service
by providing fiscal-year budget authority, and for other purposes.
Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act.
House Natural Resources Committee
Indigenous Peoples of the United States Subcommittee
The purpose of this
hearing
is to receive testimony on the following bills:
S.
3145,
to amend the Natural Gas Act to expedite approval of exports of small
volumes of natural gas, and for other purposes (Cassidy, Kennedy,
Inhofe, Rubio, Scott);
S.
3543,
to support research, development, and other activities to develop
innovative vehicle technologies, and for other purposes (Peters,
Hagerty, Stabenow);
S.
3719,
to establish the Southwestern Power Administration Fund, and for other
purposes (Moran, Marshall);
S.
3740,
to provide for a comprehensive and integrative program to accelerate
microelectronics research and development at the Department of Energy,
and for other purposes (Kelly, Blackburn);
S.
3769,
to amend the Energy Conservation and Production Act to improve the
weatherization assistance program, and for other purposes (Reed,
Collins, Coons, Shaheen);
S.
3856,
to prohibit the importation of uranium from the Russian Federation
(Barrasso, Lummis, Marshall, Cramer, Hoeven, Capito, Rubio);
S.
4038,
to increase the production and use of renewable diesel and sustainable
aviation fuel, and for other purposes (Barrasso, Feinstein, Cassidy,
Lujan, Daines);
S.
4061,
to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to modify the
definition of water heater under energy conservation standards, and
for other purposes (Stabenow, Blackburn, Hirono);
S.
4066,
to amend the Energy Act of 2020 to require the Secretary of Energy to
establish a program to accelerate the availability of commercially
produced high-assay, low-enriched uranium in the United States and to
make high-assay, low-enriched uranium produced from Department of
Energy inventories available for use in advanced nuclear reactors, and
for other purposes (Barrasso);
S.
4280,
to require the Secretary of Energy to remove carbon dioxide directly
from ambient air or seawater, and for other purposes (Coons,
Whitehouse)
S.
___,
to establish a new organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a
consensual process for siting nuclear waste facilities, ensure
adequate funding for managing nuclear waste, and for other purposes
(Manchin)
Milancy Harris to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence and Security
Dr. Radha Plumb to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition and Sustainment
Brendan Owens to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy,
Installations, and Environment
Dr. Laura Taylor-Kale to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Industrial Base Policy
At the U.S. Green Building Council, Owens oversaw technical development
of LEED, the green building rating.
If confirmed, Owens would
oversee
environmental planning and compliance, renewable energy, energy
management, and energy resilience for DoD’s global portfolio of military
bases and installations, housing, construction, and other property. The
portfolio totals approximately 2.2 billion square feet of space across
nearly 600,000 structures. It is valued at more than $1 trillion.
Some context for those numbers: Two billion square feet is larger than
the built environment of most cities in the world. It is almost 100
times the amount of office space WeWork leased last year in the United
States and Europe. One trillion dollars is more than the GDPs of
Switzerland, South Africa, and Turkey.
Mary Catherine Phee, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,
U.S. Department of State
Dr. Diana Putnam, Acting Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau of
Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development
The FY 2023 budget
request
includes $1.6 billion for development assistance in Africa; $229 million
for African Affairs in U.S. State, an increase of $20 million, which
would support 26 new positions to “help embassies engage on global
health, strengthen economic linkages, and counter the
PRC’s malign influence in Africa”; $32.6
million for the Economic Support Fund for Africa including the
Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP), the Partnership for
Regional East Africa Counterterrorism (PREACT), the Africa Regional
Democracy Fund, and the Ambassador’s Special SelfHelp program; $33
million for the U.S. African Development Foundation; $55 million for the
African Development Bank; $171 million for the African Development Fund;
$20 million for the Young African Leader’s Initiative; $2.3 billion for
international peacekeeping activities around the world, including the
Democratic Republic of the Congo ($312.9 million), Central African
Republic ($311 million), Sudan ($74.9 million) and South Sudan ($335
million), Western Sahara ($15.8 million), and Mali ($354 million); $5.6
billion in global health programs for Africa; $848 million in migration
assistance for Africa; $50.8 million in international narcotics and law
enforcement for Africa; $19.2 million in military training for Africa;
$6 million in foreign military financing for Djibouti; among other
spending. The budget request also includes $4.7 billion for
international disaster assistance globally
On July 28th, we will