Hearing: China’s Green Energy and Environmental Policies

April 8, 2010

Room 562 Dirksen Senate Office Building
First Street and Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20510

Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioners William A. Reinsch and Dennis C. Shea

Commissioners’ Opening Statements

Opening statement of Commissioner William A. Reinsch [Remarks]

Opening statement of Commissioner Dennis C. Shea [Remarks]

Panel I: Administration Perspectives

• Hon. David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC [Testimony]
• Hon. Michelle J. Depass, Assistant Administrator for International Affairs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (submitting written testimony) [Testimony]

Panel II: China’s Domestic Environmental Policies

• Dr. Jennifer L. Turner, Director, China Environment Forum, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC [Testimony]
• Dr. Stephen A. Hammer, Director, Executive Director, Energy Smart Cities Initiative, Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, New York, NY [Testimony]
• Mr. Thomas R. Howell, Partner, Dewey and LeBoeuf LLP, Washington, DC [Testimony]

Panel III: China’s International Environmental Policies

• Dr. Elizabeth Economy, Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY [Testimony]
• Ms. Angel Hsu, Doctoral Student, Yale University, New Haven, CT [Testimony]
• Mr. Rob Bradley, Director of International Climate Policy, World Resources Institute, Washington, DC [Testimony]

Lunch Break

Panel IV: U.S.-China Cooperation on Green Energy

• Mr. L. Cartan Sumner, Jr., Vice President of International Government Relations, Peabody Energy, St. Louis, MO [Testimony]
• Mr. Dennis Bracy, Chief Executive Officer, U.S.-China Clean Energy Forum, Seattle, WA [Testimony]
• Mr. Albert Tramposch, Deputy Executive Director, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Arlington, VA [Testimony]