Our long-running experiment to alter the planet’s geochemistry is returning some impressive results

PRESENTED BY AN OYSTERCATCHER

It’s Earth Day 2026. Our long-running experiment to alter the planet’s geochemistry is returning some impressive results:

Imagine, if you will, that you’re on the Hill today. (If you don’t have to imagine, congratudolences!)

Maybe you’re honoring Earth Day by attending the massive House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition bicameral press conference on climate action in Rayburn 2168:

Maybe you like to go where the fight is, and you’re attending the markup of the Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Services and General Government bill in 2359 Rayburn or watching climate denier and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman in 2318 Rayburn testify about slashing the FY2027 NASA science budget by 50 percent¹ or watching climate denier and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum testify in 124 Dirksen about slashing environmental protections or climate denier and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testify in 193 Dirksen about cutting the NOAA budget by $1.6 billion or climate denier and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testify in 138 Dirksen about erasing the Global Environment Facility or climate denier and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins testify in 106 Dirksen about eviscerating climate grants or climate denier and Energy Secretary Chris Wright testify in 123 Dirksen about eliminating $15 billion in clean-energy funding.

In either case, you should wind down the day by heading over to the Community Choice Energy Alliance Congressional Networking Reception in 2044 Rayburn.

If you’re not on the Hill today, get out and organize for more energy from heaven, not from hell.

That’s all I’ve got for you today!

Love your mother, love each other.

Hearings on the Hill:

• 10 AM: Senate Appropriations Committee
     Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
  A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior

• 10 AM: Senate Appropriations Committee
     Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
     Homeland Security Subcommittee
  A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Commerce

• 10 AM: House Energy and Commerce Committee
     Energy Subcommittee
  Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Oversight of Activities, Priorities, and Fiscal Year 2027 Budget

• 10 AM: Senate Appropriations Committee
      Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee
  A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of the Treasury

• 10 AM: House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
  A Review of the President’s Budget Request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Fiscal Year 2027

• 10 AM: House Appropriations Committee
  Continuation of Full Committee Markup of Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Services and General Government Bill

• 10 AM: House Natural Resources Committee
     Federal Lands Subcommittee
  The EXPLORE Act and Accessibility and Inclusion at our National Parks and Public Lands

• 10:15 AM: House Natural Resources Committee
     Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee
  Tribal Natural Resource Development

• 2 PM: House Energy and Commerce Committee
     Environment Subcommittee
  Domestic Pollution Control Laws and the Mining and Recycling Industries

• 2:30 PM: Senate Appropriations Committee
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
  A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Agriculture

• 2:30 PM: Senate Appropriations Committee
     Energy and Water Development Subcommittee
  A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Energy

Climate Action Today:

• 12:30 PM: House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition
  Federal Fire, Local Heat

• 5:30 PM: Community Choice Energy Alliance
  Community Choice Energy Alliance Congressional Networking Reception

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1  Rep. George Whitesides (D-Calif.) spent his time sucking up to Isaacman.