| As April draws to a close, we’re marveling at how quickly the months are flying by! Probably because we have so much good stuff going on. We recently hosted a great chat with Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member (and Roosevelt Conservation Caucus member) Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). Sen. Capito discussed her ADVANCE Act, which seeks to develop and deploy advanced nuclear energy, and the LNG export ban along with many other topics. You can watch it here. Also in Roosevelt Caucus member news, House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman’s America’s Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act (H.R. 7408) passed out of committee earlier this month. His bill would provide grant funding and give states other support to enact their congressionally mandated wildlife action plans. We spoke about it with him last month – you can check it out here. As we teased in last month’s newsletter, we officially launched our Roosevelt Conservation Fellowship program. The program is designed to bring new perspectives to the discussion, and our two inaugural fellows, Alina Clough and Patrick Hynes, are already accomplishing that goal. Patrick’s “Is Biden’s War on LNG the New Anti-Nuclearism” was recently published in Real Clear Energy and Alina’s “How Nixon Can Secure Our Energy Grid from Beyond the Grave” was published in The Washington Times. Separately, we wrote about whether Climate Action Can Survive Another Trump White House, and about California’s Misguided Locomotive Rule. And speaking of the misguided locomotive rule, we joined C3 Solutions and American Conservation Coalition in submitting comments to the Environmental Protection Agency this month, urging them to deny the California Air Resources Board’s request for a waiver of federal preemption under section 209 of the Clean Air Act. You can read our comments here. Lastly, in April we hosted a congressional briefing on the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Clean Hydrogen Tax Credit. We had four expert panelists and a nice turnout of attendees. If you’re a congressional staffer who would like to be included in future briefings, please let us know! That’s it from us this month. We hope wherever you are reading this from, you are enjoying some springtime weather and warm sunshine! |
