Experts from RFF, Energy Innovation, the
REPEAT Project, and Rhodium Group discuss new
analyses
that project the bill’s potential impacts on US households and
economy-wide emissions reductions.
On July 27, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe
Manchin (D-WV) released a new deal for a reconciliation package, the
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The proposal includes $369 billion for
new climate and energy investments over the next decade. What does the
broad package mean for US climate ambitions—and Americans’ pocketbooks?
Modeling experts from Resources for the Future (RFF), Energy Innovation,
Princeton University’s REPEAT Project, and
Rhodium Group have examined the legislation’s climate and energy
provisions and projected their effects on US emissions reductions and
costs for US retail electricity consumers. Join us on Wednesday, August
10, for an RFF Live webinar featuring these
experts as they talk about their analysis, key provisions in the
legislation, and their work to inform the conversation surrounding this
landmark proposal.
Speakers
Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University REPEAT
Project
John Larsen, Rhodium Group
Robbie Orvis, Energy Innovation
Kevin Rennert, Resources for the Future
Karen Palmer, Resources for the Future (Moderator)
Jennifer Michael, Resources for the Future (Introductory Remarks)
The U.S. Senate is poised to pass the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a
major landmark for American efforts to address the climate crisis that
would be the most significant climate legislation in U.S. history and
get the country within striking distance of its 2030 emissions reduction
target.
If passed, the package of climate and clean energy investments will have
a tremendous impact on innovation and cost reductions for a whole set of
clean-energy solutions. The investments would help accelerate the U.S.
transition to a clean energy economy and offer Americans a plethora of
savings, health and economic benefits. The bill will also be critical in
making progress toward the nation’s climate goal and show other
countries that the U.S. is still a leader in the fight against climate
change.
Join us for a press
briefing
on August 8, 20222 ET to help distill some of the major takeaways of the
IRA, what it means for the U.S. ambitions to
achieve its 2030 emissions reduction target, and how it may affect the
global climate policy debate in the months ahead.
At 10:00 am PDT on Wednesday, August 3, 2022,
the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis will hold a hybrid field
hearing
titled “Building Climate-Resilient Coastal Communities: Perspectives
from Oregon’s State, Local, and Tribal Partners.” The hearing will be
held in Patriot Hall, Clatsop Community College, 1650 Lexington Avenue,
Astoria, OR 97103.
For the general public wishing to attend the hearing, please enter
through the Patriot Hall front entrance and proceed to the gymnasium,
which will open at 9 am for attendees.
Witnesses:
Dr. Elaine Placido, Executive Director, Lower Columbia Estuary
Partnership. Placido is a veteran of the Coast Guard and has
twenty-plus years of local government and non-profit experience prior
to working with the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership.
Dr. Francis Chan, Director, Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystem
and Resource Studies; Associate Professor, Department of Integrative
Biology, Oregon State University. Chan leads the Institute’s research
in conservation, protection, and restoration of marine resources;
marine ecosystems; ocean acoustics; and ocean, coastal, and seafloor
processes.
Tyler Bell, Director, Westervelt Ecological Services’ Rocky Mountain
Region. Bell primarily oversees the organization’s restoration site
planning and development, agency relations and coordination, business
development, and management of regional staff.
Aja DeCoteau, Executive Director, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission. DeCoteau leads the organization’s strategic direction and
team of more than 130 employees in four locations in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho to put fish back in the rivers, protect treaty
fishing rights, share salmon culture, and provide direct services to
tribal fishers along the Columbia River.
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.
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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)
On July 28th, we will