Markey to Hold Congressional Briefing with Youth Climate Leaders and Address Power Shift 09 Conference
WASHINGTON DC – This weekend more than 11,000 student climate leaders will descend on Washington, DC to take part in the Power Shift Climate Action Conference and Capitol Hill day of action. Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass), Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, will hold a special Congressional briefing with student leaders on Monday, March 2, 2009, at 1:30 PM, in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building.
The Congressional briefing, entitled "Youth Climate: Green Jobs, Clean Futures," will feature testimony from campus leaders and youth activists whose lives have been impacted by global warming and are meeting the climate challenge by building a clean energy future. Witnesses include a young cancer survivor who is now fighting to curb pollution in her local community, the son of an oil worker who is working to bring green jobs to New Mexico, a United Nations Climate Change youth delegate, a student entrepreneur who started a clean energy fund, and the head of the Energy Action Coalition.
In addition, Chairman Markey will be addressing the Power Shift 09 Conference on Saturday night, February 28, 2008 at the Washington D.C. Convention Center.
SATURDAY 2/28/09:
WHAT: Rep. Ed Markey to address more than 11,000 attendees of the Power Shift 2009 Conference
WHERE: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Pl, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001, HALL D & E, (press entrance on L Street)
WHEN: Estimated Start Time: 8:00 PM
MONDAY 3/2/09:
WHAT: Select Committee Congressional briefing: "Youth Climate: Green Jobs, Clean Futures”
WHERE: 2172 Rayburn, U.S. Capitol Complex, and on the web at: http://www.globalwarming.house.gov/
WHEN: Monday, March 2, 2009 at 1:30 PM
CONTACT: Jeff Sharp, Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
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