Dr. Natalie M. Mahowald – Irving Porter Church Professor of
Engineering, Faculty Director for the Environment, Atkinson Center for
a Sustainable Future, Cornell University
Dr. Robert Kopp – Director, Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and
Atmospheric Sciences, and Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences, Rutgers University
Dr. Jennifer Francis – Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
Dr. Kristie L. Ebi – Rohm & Haas Endowed Professor in Public Health
Sciences, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment
(CHanGE) University of Washington
Dr. Joseph Majkut, Director of Climate Policy, Niskanen Center
The Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on Feb. 6 at 10:00
a.m. in Longworth 1324 on the need to address climate change and its
impacts on American communities, natural resources and economic
well-being. A full witness list is available below.
As with all Committee hearings, the event is open to press and the
public.
As part of Chair Grijalva’s efforts to learn more about how climate
change is impacting the American people, he recently launched an online
tool for the public to share climate change stories at
https://naturalresources.house.gov/climate-change. Everyone is
encouraged to participate in the conversation on social media with the
hashtag #ActOnClimate.
Witness List
Panel 1
The Honorable Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina
The Honorable Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts
Panel 2
Dr. Kim Cobb, Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ms. Nadia Nazar, Co-Founder, Associate Director, and Art Director,
Zero Hour Movement, Co-organizer of the Youth Climate March
Ms. Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director,
UPROSE, Steering Committee Co-Chair of the
Climate Justice Alliance
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. , President, Hip Hop Caucus, Member of the
Advisory Board of The Climate Mobilization
Ms. Paula DiPerna, Special Advisor, CDP
North America
Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment
and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced
today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a
hearing on climate change on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 10 am in
room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing, entitled
“Time for Action: Addressing the Environmental & Economic Effects of
Climate Change,” is the first Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on
climate change since 2013 when Republicans held a hearing critical of
the Climate Action Plan.
“It is long past time for this Committee to begin seriously examining
how climate change is affecting our communities, environment and
economy, and take action to reduce its harmful effects,” Pallone and
Tonko said. “The science has been indisputably clear for years now –
climate change is real and caused by human activity including burning
fossil fuels. We are committed to combating climate change and standing
up for those left to suffer in its wake. This will be the first of many
hearings on this growing global crisis.”
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET, the
Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, led
by Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA), and the Subcommittee on Oversight,
Investigations, and Accountability, led by Chairman Dan Bishop
(R-NC),will hold a
hearing
to examine the effectiveness of the border barrier system and the
effects of the Biden administration’s cancellation of border wall
contracts on the safety and security of the American people.
Witnesses:
Panel I
Ntina Cooper, Acting Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner for
Enterprise Services, Customs and Border Protection, Department of
Homeland Security
Colonel Jason Jefferis, Head of Contracting Activities, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense
Rebecca Gambler, Director, Homeland Security and Justice, U.S.
Government Accountability Office
Panel II
Ron
Vitiello,
Former Chief of the U.S Border Patrol (Retired), Customs and Border
Protection, Department of Homeland Security
Jim De Sotle, Interim Chief Executive Officer, LoneStar Pipeline
Contractors
Russell Johnson, Private Citizen
Alexander Tenorio, MD, Neurological Surgery Resident, University of
California San Diego Health
House Homeland Security Committee
Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee
Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Subcommittee
Diane Katz, Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy, Heritage Foundation
Chris Edwards, Director, Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Dan Reicher, Executive Director, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University
Ryan Yonk, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, Utah State University; Research Director, Institute of Political Economy, Utah State University
National, congressional, community, and faith leaders will share ideas
on how we can work together and ensure the Clean Power Plan creates
health, wealth, and opportunity for low-income communities and
communities of color.
From 9 to 11 am, at the National Press Club located at 529 14th Street
NW in Washington, D.C.