Climate science, policy, politics, and action
Witnesses:
This hearing immediately follows a business meeting on several nominations.
The business meeting will be followed by a hearing on reauthorization of the Brownfields program.
The U.S. Senate will convene and resume consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R.6833, the legislative vehicle for the continuing resolution.
The cloture vote with respect to the motion to proceed will occur at 5:30 p.m.
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Tuesday Morning Action outside the Capitol with Our Revolution in coalition with Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Third Act, Our Future WV, For All, and WV Coalition to End the Filibuster. We’ll be gathering at 1st and Maryland Avenue NE on the the Capitol side of 1st St.
Bill McKibben and representatives of front-line communities in West Virgina and western Virginia will be speaking against Joe Manchin’s Dirty Deal and the Mountain Valley Pipeline and how we can STOP it!
World Bank President David Malpass refused to acknowledge the climate crisis is here and it’s manmade – dodging the question and saying he’s “not a scientist.”
Activists will set up a stage in front of the World Bank HQ in Washington DC and read the entire IPCC report over megaphones pointed at the building, with banners and placards calling for his ouster.
WHO: Activists from The Climate Reality Project, Friends of the Earth US, Glasgow Actions Team, front line communities in West Virginia, Bill McKibben, and many, many, many more (there’s a lot to read!)
WHAT: The Climate Science is Settled: Protest to Fire Malpass
WHERE: Community Park outside World Bank headquarters
WHEN: Tuesday, September 27, 8:30 AM ET
Please join the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center virtually, on Monday, September 26, from 4:00 – 5:00 pm ET for a discussion on the importance and role of a national green bank in accelerating an equitable transition to a clean energy economy.
One of the many notable components of the Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the authorization of $27 billion to establish the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. A national green bank would have a mandate to finance clean energy and environmental justice projects in every state. Through the bank, clean energy entrepreneurs would leverage funding to advance clean energy initiatives and infrastructure in their communities, while creating cleaner air and good, local jobs. The bank would support projects where the problem is not only the cost of financing, but also the availability of financing.
Low-income communities spend three times more of their income on energy costs compared to non-low-income households. The national green bank would help correct this imbalance and help ensure an equitable transition to clean energy in all communities. It would provide billions of dollars of low interest,100 percent up front financing and other forms of financial support to reduce the burden of energy costs by helping to ensure that low-income households and communities have the funding to install clean energy projects while lowering their energy costs.
Distributing the IRA funding through a national green bank would have many advantages. The national green bank could establish national standards for loans, develop credit enhancement programs, and provide expertise and funding to state and local green banks and Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) on renewable energy projects. A national green bank could raise additional funds to those provided in the IRA and through interest on and repayment of loans.
During this panel discussion, experts will discuss opportunities for the Biden Administration to successfully build a national green bank and unlock investment to support an equitable and just clean energy future.
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The Committee on Natural Resources Office of Insular Affairs will hold a hybrid oversight hearing on “PROMESA and LUMA Energy’s Contract.” Scheduled for Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building and via Cisco Webex, the hearing has been postponed because of the catastrophic damage from Hurricane Fiona.
The hearing will feature testimony from key stakeholders regarding the implementation of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) and discuss H.R. 7409 – TRUST for Puerto Rico Act to dissolve the Oversight Board. The hearing will also examine LUMA Energy’s contract to manage, operate, and rebuild Puerto Rico’s electric power transmission and distribution system.
Witnesses:
Panel I: PROMESA and H.R. 7409
Panel II: LUMA Energy’s Contract
The purpose of the hearing is to examine opportunities and challenges in deploying innovative battery and non-battery technologies for energy storage.
The Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance will hold a hearing entitled, “State of Emergency: Examining the Impact of Growing Wildfire Risk on the Insurance Market” on September 22 at 9:00 am in room 2128 of the Rayburn House Office Building and on the Webex platform.
Legislation
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