In the House, two hearings are scheduled in the Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The first on Tuesday, February 13, will solicit views from the private sector on how to address climate change. The second, on Wednesday, February 14 will examine a recent U.N. report indicating that 90% of climate change is caused by Human Activities.
In the Senate, both the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee have scheduled hearings on Tuesday to hear, respectively, from the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a group of businesses and leading environmental organizations that have come together to encourage action, and hear from experts on the economic impacts of climate change.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently announced her desire to have a bill out of Committee by the July 4th recess. In the Senate, staff to the top Democrat, Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-CA), of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has indicated "she intends to move a series of bills this year."
Bottom line: Action in both chambers is forthcoming.