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The clean energy economy has seen robust growth in recent decades and now presents the opportunity for widespread wealth creation that benefits American small businesses, their workers, and consumers. It has the potential to create millions of good-paying jobs spread across tens of thousands of businesses while simultaneously lowering energy prices for consumers.

This hearing will focus on workforce development initiatives in the clean energy economy, discuss Congressional proposals regarding clean energy, and explore the potential for the growth this industry could unleash.

Hearing memo

Witnesses

• Leticia Colon De Mejias, Chief Executive Officer of Energy Efficiencies Solutions and Co-chair for the Building Performance Association, Energy Efficiencies Solutions
• James Hasselbeck , Director of Operations , ReVision Energy, Inc., South Portland, ME
• Samuel Gilchrist, Western Campaigns Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, Denver, CO

Republican witness

• Tom Greer, Proprietor and Owner, Hub City Brewing Co., Belen, NM, Testifying on behalf of the Consumer Energy Alliance

Business meeting to consider H.R. 267, the 2020 WHIP+ Reauthorization Act.

The text of the act:

Amounts appropriated by section 791(d) of division B of Public Law 116–94 shall also be made available for necessary expenses related to losses of crops (including smoke-tainted wine grapes) as a consequence of wildfires occurring in calendar year 2020 in the same manner as other crop losses under the heading “Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Programs—Processing, Research and Marketing—Office of the Secretary” in title I of the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (Public Law 116–20).

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will convene a hearing titled “Pipeline Cybersecurity: Protecting Critical Infrastructure“ at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. The hearing will examine the current state of pipeline cybersecurity and the role that federal regulators play in protecting our nation’s critical infrastructure from malicious actors. This hearing will provide members an opportunity to examine recent actions taken in response to pipeline cyber incidents and gaps in our current oversight and regulatory structure.

Witnesses:

• David Pekoske, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
• Polly Trottenberg, Deputy Secretary, Department of Transportation
• Leslie Gordon, Acting Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office

Meeting for H.R. 4502, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2022.

• Division A (Labor, Health and Human Services, Education) – Committee Report
• Division B (H.R. 4356 – Agriculture, Rural Development) – Committee Report
• Division C (Energy and Water Development) – Committee Report
• Division D (H.R. 4345 – Financial Services and General Government) – Committee Report
• Division E (H.R. 4372 – Interior, Environment) – Committee Report
• Division F (H.R. 4355 – Military Construction, Veterans Affairs) – Committee Report
• Division G (Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development) – Committee Report

The amendment deadline was July 21.

On Wednesday, July 22, at 10:00 AM ET, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight will hold a hearing to examine current issues that adversely affect environmental justice communities.

The purpose of the business meeting is to consider the nominations of:

• Robert T. Anderson to be Solicitor of the Department of the Interior
• Shalanda H. Baker to be Director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact, Department of Energy
• Samuel T. Walsh to be General Counsel, Department of Energy (June 8)
• Andrew E. Light to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (International Affairs)
• Tracy Stone-Manning to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management.

Robert Anderson’s nomination hearing was May 18; the rest had their nomination hearing on June 8.

Rules Committee Print of H.R. 4502, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2022

The deadline for amendments is 5 pm.

• Division A (Labor, Health and Human Services, Education)
• Division B (H.R. 4356 – Agriculture, Rural Development) – Committee Report
• Division C (Energy and Water Development)
• Division D (H.R. 4345 – Financial Services and General Government) – Committee Report
• Division E (H.R. 4372 – Interior, Environment) – Committee Report
• Division F (H.R. 4355 – Military Construction, Veterans Affairs) – Committee Report
• Division G (Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development)

Hearing page

Witnesses

Panel I

• Jonathan Pershing, Senior Advisor to the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, U.S. Department of State
• Richard L. Buangan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy and Regional and Security Policy, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State
• Craig Hart, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia, United States Agency for International Development
• Melissa Dalton, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, U.S. Department of Defense

Panel II

• Marinel Sumook Ubaldo, youth climate activist, The Philippines
• Richard Powell, Executive Director, ClearPath
• Sherri Goodman, Secretary General, International Military Council on Climate and Security

On Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 10:00 A.M. EDT, in room 1324 Longworth Hearing Room and online via Cisco Webex, the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife will hold a hybrid oversight hearing titled, “Examining the President’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Proposal for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.” This hearing will also be streamed on the Committee’s YouTube.

Witnesses

• David Palumbo, Deputy Commissioner of Operations, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
• Dr. Don Cline, Associate Director, Water Resources, U.S. Geological Survey
• Dr. Richard W. Spinrad, Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Stephen D. Guertin, Deputy Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service