Liberty in Laundry

PRESENTED BY THE WISKICAHK

Skipping past the toxic sludge in our bloodstreams, the extreme heat in Nigeria, the gas industry’s gaslighting, BLM’s new rates and rules for oil and gas leases, and the flooding from West Virginia to Pennsyvlania, let’s look ahead to next week’s news!

One: The Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Money Fund are in DC next week, and Action Aid will be leading a drumbeat of protests and policy briefings for climate justice.

Two: Bloomberg’s Jennifer Dlouhy reports that Interior Secretary Deb Haaland plans to finalize rules limiting drilling in Alaska’s North Slope any day now. The rule won’t affect the giant Willow Project already approved by the administration but may put half of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska off limits to drillers.

Three: The chaotic, fractured House Republican caucus will come together next week for a unified attack against the most dangerous threat to America—higher energy efficiency standards.

Maybe they can’t handle their Constitutional responsibility of determining the federal budget or managing foreign affairs, but they can bring a suite of bills to the floor of the House defending fossil-fueled household appliances from the dastardly Department of Energy!

Check out these bills, obviously written by polluter lobbyists but putatively by six different GOP climate deniers:

• H.R. 7673 — Liberty in Laundry Act from Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.)

• H.R. 7700 — Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act from Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.)

• H.R. 7626 — Affordable Air Conditioning Act from Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas)

• H.R. 7637 — Refrigerator Freedom Act from Marianette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa)

• H.R. 7645 — Clothes Dryers Reliability Act from Mike Ezell (R-Miss.)

• H.R. 6192 — Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act from Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.)

Credit where credit is due: whichever intern came up with the SUDS Act backronym, good job, bro.

SO MANY GOOD PEOPLE! Asked by NBC’s Maura Barrett if space exploration is in conflict with fighting climate change, William Shatner was flabbergasted:

Citing the divine order to “till and tend” the Earth (Genesis 2:15) the Union for Reform Judaism became the first major Jewish denomination to divest its portfolio from oil and gas companies.

The 100th issue of the Looking Forward newsletter by Claire Elise Thompson offers climate solutions by the hundred. It’s so good!

BIRD NEWS: Climate polluters are managing the transition to a world without birds:

• Intense rains and warmer winters are making lakes dirtier, making it harder for loons to hunt and feed their chicks.

• England’s hotter, wetter winters are disrupting the lives of the swans of Stratford-upon-Avon.

• Canada jays—the wîskicahk—are threatened by climate polluters like Canada’s tar-sands profiteers.

Colombians told to shower with a friend as drought hits capital water supplies. 14 confirmed tornadoes from Texas to Florida amid severe storm warnings. Electric cars are saving Americans billions — even people who don’t drive them. It’s not just fossil finance—Wall Street is financing industrial agriculture’s climate pollution as well.

ERMAHGERD, JERBS!

The talented Daniela Lapidous is offering job search support services for social impact jobseekers. Don’t be afraid to reach out, and tell her Hill Heat sent you!

Sadly, the amazing Hot News daily roundup of climate news written by Climate Nexus’ Nathan Kauffman has ended its run. Day and day out, Nathan’s newsletter provided the grist for Hill Heat. I look forward to what Nathan has on offer next.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking a Director of the Office of Climate Adaptation and Sustainability (Senior Executive Service, DC), and is offering a spring/summer graduate-student fellowship with their EnviroAtlas team at North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (standard stipend).

The Comptroller of the Currency is hiring a senior climate risk specialist to analyze climate-related financial risk and help develop new rules and guidance ($112K-$209K, DC).

The Department of Energy is recruiting undergraduate and graduate-school applicants for its Scholars Program ($700-$750 a week).

The climate magazine Atmos is looking for a development director ($135K-$150K, remote).

Climate Central is seeking their first chief of staff, who will report directly to CEO Ben Strauss ($160,000-$180K, remote/Princeton, N.J.)

The Washington Post is hiring a climate and environment photo assignment editor (no salary given, DC)—the role has global impact, but you’ll be expected to do the work of four people.

The plugged-in advocacy group Evergreen Action is hiring a senior policy lead for buildings decarbonization ($125K, remote) and a deputy communications director ($125K, remote).

Community clean power advocacy organization Groundswell is hiring a senior data analyst (no salary given, hybrid/DC) and a clean energy policy analyst (no salary given, hybrid/DC).

The climate research institute PSE Healthy Energy is looking for a project manager to help manage their science and policy research ($90K-$100K, remote).

The Sunrise Project is hiring an EV transition campaigner (US, Brazil, or Mexico, $92K-$100K) to coordinate their campaign on a just transition to zero-pollution medium and heavy duty trucks.

The great Michael Kieschnick’s Carbon Advocacy Project is seeking a federal advocacy director ($150K-$175K, DC).

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