Building a 21st Century American Offshore Wind Workforce
H.R. 3068 (Rep. Keating), To establish an offshore wind career training grant program, and for other purposes. “Offshore Wind Jobs and Opportunities Act”
The Costs of Climate Change: Risks to the U.S. Economy and the Federal Budget
Witnesses:
- Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Political Science; and Director of the Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University
- Solomon Hsiang, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
- J. Alfredo Gómez, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Oren Cass, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Advanced Nuclear Technology: Protecting U.S. Leadership and Expanding Opportunities for Licensing New Nuclear Energy Technologies
Panel 1
- William D. Magwood, Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
- Chris Levesque, Chief Executive Officer, TerraPower
- Bob Perciasepe, President, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Expanded Deployment of Grid-Scale Energy Storage
Opening Remarks
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Chairman, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Sen. Joe Manchin, Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Dr. George Crabtree, Director, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory
- Mitch Davidson, CEO, US Brookfield Renewable
- Ben Fowke, Chairman of the Board, President & Chief Executive Officer, Xcel Energy Inc.
- Kiran Kumaraswamy, VP, Market Applications Fluence
- Andrew Ott, President and CEO, PJM Interconnection LLC
Nature in Crisis: Biodiversity Loss and its Causes
Opening Statement:
- Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)
- Sir Robert Watson, Past Chair, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- Dr. Kate Brauman, Coordinating Lead Author, IPBES Global Assessment; Lead Scientist, Global Water Initiative, University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment
- Dr. James Porter, Josiah Meigs Professor of Ecology, Emeritus, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
- Jeff Goodwin, Conservation Stewardship Lead & Agricultural Consultant, Noble Research Institute
- Dr. Steven Monfort, Director of the Smithsonian National Zoo and Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Creating a Climate Resilient America
Witnesses
- Rachel Cleetus, Policy Director, Climate and Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Noah Diffenbaugh, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
- Matt Russell, Executive Director, Iowa Interfaith Power and Light
Responding to the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Witnesses
- Sir Robert Watson, Immediate Past Chair, IPBES
- Dr. Eduardo S. Brondizio, Co-Chair, IPBES Global Assessment
- Dr. Yunne Shin, Coordinating Lead Author, IPBES Global Assessment
- Dr. Jacob Malcom, Director, Center for Conservation Innovation, Defenders of Wildlife
- Patrick Moore, Chairman, CO2 Coalition
- Marc Morano, Founder, Climate Depot