Join the grassroots kickoff
rally for the THRIVE Act on Tuesday, March
16th at 7pm ET/4pm PT! RSVP
here. You will receive an
email reminder with a link to the livestream, and you may also receive
occasional emails from the Green New Deal Network.
The purpose of the hearing is to examine ways to strengthen research and
development in innovative transportation technologies with a focus on
solutions that decrease emissions, reduce our reliance on foreign supply
chains, and increase manufacturing in the United States.
Witnesses
Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary & Acting
Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, U.S.
Department of Energy
Edmund Adam Muellerweiss, Chief Sustainability Officer, Clarios
Janvier Désiré Nkurunziza, Officer-in-Charge, Commodities Branch and
Chief Commodity Research and Analysis Section Division on
International Trade and Commodities, United Nations Conference on
Trade & Development
Tony Satterthwaite, Vice Chairman, Cummins
Robert Wimmer, Director, Energy and Environmental Research Group,
Toyota Motor North America
Dr. Michael
Oppenheimer,
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs,
Princeton University
Dr. Zeke
Hausfather,
Director of Climate and Energy, The Breakthrough Institute
Dr. Noah S.
Diffenbaugh,
Kara J. Foundation Professor, Department of Earth System Science,
Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment,
Stanford University
Dr. Paula S.
Bontempi,
Dean, Graduate School of Oceanography, Professor of Oceanography,
University of Rhode Island
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 2:00 P.M. EST,
the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife will hold a virtual,
fully remote oversight hearing titled, “Building Back Better: Building
Resilience for the Economy, Climate, and Ecosystems.”
Witnesses
Laura
Ziemer,
Senior Counsel and Water Policy Advisor, Trout Unlimited
Aleksandr
Modjeski,
Habitat Restoration Program Director, American Littoral Society
Dr. Cassandra
Moseley,
Research Professor and Senior Policy Advisor, Ecosystem Workforce
Program, University of Oregon
Dan
Keppen,
Executive Director, Family Farm Alliance
Today, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), chairman of the Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs, led a roundtable discussion, “Native
Communities and the Climate Crisis,” to hear from Native leaders and
experts from around the country on how climate change is impacting their
communities, and how Congress can be partner in mitigating these impacts
and developing solutions and climate resiliency.
As Schatz reflected on the panelist testimony, he noted how important it
is for Congress to learn from Native communities in managing resources,
adapting to climate change, and developing solutions:
“Native communities have shown us that climate solutions are not
exclusively found in spreadsheets, or in tax credits, or incentives, or
even in the regulatory area,” said Chairman Schatz. “It is in the
actual, physical restoration of the land, and the water, and our
streams, and our lakes. Native wisdom has to be incorporated into any
climate policy that we have.”