Climate science, policy, politics, and action
Full committee hearing.
Nominee:
Bhattacharya is notorious as one of the co-authors of the anti-pandemic response Great Barrington Declaration.
Full committee hearing.
Nominees:
David Fotouhi is a pro-mesothelioma lawyer.
Aaron Szabo is an American Chemistry Council (ACC), American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) and American Petroleum Institute (API) lobbyist who contributed to the Project 2025 EPA chapter.
The Subcommittee on Energy has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. (ET) in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The title of the hearing is “Scaling for Growth: Meeting the Demand for Reliable, Affordable Electricity.” This hearing will explore the challenges faced by utilities and grid operators to deliver reliable, affordable electricity to meet the growing demand for power across the nation.
Witnesses:
Data centers house servers and other computing infrastructure required to store, process, and share data used for digital applications and services. Expanded use of AI, machine learning, and cloud services by data centers drives up electricity demand as these processes continuously perform energy intensive applications.
In addition, data centers require significant electricity to power cooling systems to preserve the integrity of the servers. As an example, one ChatGPT query consumes ten times the electricity compared to one query of Google’s search engine. Currently, data centers consume 4 percent of U.S. electricity generation and could consume as much as 9 percent by the end of the decade.
This rate of growth is expected to continue as companies compete on a domestic and international level in the race to capture the AI market and expand digital services into all manner of industry and manufacturing.
The hearing will assess the current threat to the U.S. research enterprise posed by malign foreign actors. This includes the risk to federal, state, non-governmental institutions, and academia. The hearing will explore trends and tactics used to steal, exploit, and undermine U.S. science, research, development, and deployment.
Witnesses: • John F. Sargent Jr., Retired, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy, Congressional Research Service • Jeffrey Stoff, Founder and President, Center for Research Security & Integrity • Dr. Maria Zuber, E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Presidential Advisor for Science and Technology Policy, MIT
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This is a hearing of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation entitled “America Builds: Coast Guard Acquisitions and Infrastructure.”
Witnesses:
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President Donald Trump delivers an address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
Tuesday, March 4th, marks the President’s Address to Congress. Instead of tuning, We the People will come together in community all across the country, including at the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., to raise our voices and stand up for our democracy.
Led by League of Women Voter chapters, organizations supporting these national rallies include AFT, Black Voters Matter, NOW, Public Citizen, American Democracy, AAPD, Common Cause, APIA Vote, NCJW, SPLC, and The Workers Circle.
Black Lives Matter Plaza (corner of H St. NW & 16th St. NW)
The official Working Families Party response to President Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress will be delivered by Rep. Lateefah Simon (CA-12) on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025.
March Forth!
March 4 Liberty
Defend Democracy
United We Stand, Divided We Fall.
Defend Your Rights.
In DC and at your state Capitol.
On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Understanding the Consequences of Experimental Populations Under the Endangered Species Act.”
Witnesses: