EPW hearing is on Thursday at 10:15 AM
The Honorable Brenda MalloryChairCouncil on Environmental Quality Christine HaradaExecutive DirectorFederal Permitting Improvement Steering Council The Honorable Jason MillerDeputy Director for ManagementOffice of Management and BudgetOn Mon, May 15, 2023 at 2:23 PM Stephen Schima <sschima@earthjustice.org> wrote:
Greetings All,
Another big week ahead, so looking forward to our call today at 4pm. Below is an agenda for the call. Apologies for not getting this out this morning, but it’s been a crazy week already (and its only Monday!). Please feel free to contact me to add anything. Also, note that the link to the meeting is below the agenda.
· Housekeeping
o A running list of notes and factsheets can be found in the community drive. NOTE: Please let me know if there is anything to the community drive that should be added.
o Reminder: Good Polling on Clean Energy and Permitting Reform released
· Recap of Last Week
o Congress
§ House
· Dear Colleague Letter Circulating from Grijalva, Huffman, Dingell, Tonko, Levin, Casten, Stansbury, Lee, and Leger Fernandez – UPDATED Deadline May 19.
· Great OpEd in the Hill last week from Reps Grijalva and Stansbury
· House Natural Resources Committee hearing – Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations – The Biden Administration’s Executive Overreach and its Impact on American Energy Independence
o Terrific testimony from Jamie Pleune, Assistant Professor at University at Utah
§ Senate Environment and Public Works
· Carper Announces Plan to Introduce Permit Reform Legislation – as early as Thursday
o White House
§ More Podesta comments on Biden Support for Manchin Bill
§ White House Unveils Permitting Plan
· This Week in Congress
o Debt Ceiling Negotiations
§ Permit Reform Key Part of Republican Demands
o House
§ Legislation
· Clean Energy and Transmission Acceleration Act – Discussion Draft – Comments due
§ Hearings or Markups?
o Senate
§ Senate Energy and Natural Resources Mark Up Wednesday at 10am
· Neither Manchin bill, nor Barrasso bill included in notice
§ Environment and Public Works Hearing on Wednesday at 10:15am
· CEQ, OMB, and FPISC to testify
· Advocacy/Campaign
o Grasstops Outrech
o Earned Media
o Paid Media
o Grassroots Actions
Meeting Link:
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