House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Briefing pack

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient

Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ)
Chair and Ranking Member, House Energy & Commerce
U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, 119th Congress

Recent work

Subcommittee leadership: Energy — Chair Bob Latta (R-OH), Ranking Kathy Castor (D-FL). Environment — Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Ranking Paul Tonko (D-NY).

Signals the recipient responds to

Guthrie: KY coal-country member, market-discipline framing
Pallone: NJ environment-strong member, integrity framing
Latta/Castor (Energy): oversight of DOE, energy-market policy
Griffith/Tonko (Environment): voluntary-market and EPA policy

Organisational context

Positions

Committee has active oversight interest in SEC climate disclosure, EPA voluntary-market guidance, and DOE procurement integrity — three surfaces where proof-pack property-based disclosure is directly on point.

Active initiatives

119th Congress is pursuing market-integrity oversight across multiple sectors including carbon markets.

Pressures

Bipartisan pressure to demonstrate taxpayer protection on federal CDR procurement; institutional-buyer pressure on SEC substantiation.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: A Guthrie-Pallone joint hearing on per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as market discipline and integrity is defensible on both sides. Latta/Castor and Griffith/Tonko subcommittees can hold the implementation hearings. Witnesses from Berkeley (Haya), Yale (Planavsky), Georgia Tech (Reinhard), and a corporate buyer CFO give the technical substance.

Why now: 119th Congress mid-session — before the appropriations cycle closes on FY27 DOE procurement criteria.

The ask: Committee staff briefing through established lobbying contacts. Appendix: proof-pack schema one-pager, SEC climate-rule substantiation analysis, hearing witness roster, statutory-language draft from BPC.

Committee: House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Target members: Chair and Ranking Member; Environment Subcommittee; Oversight Subcommittee.

Jurisdictional frame

Environmental Protection Agency; voluntary carbon market reporting and oversight; SEC climate disclosure (partial); DOE energy policy oversight.

Framing

Per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as a reporting-integrity question under existing EPA and SEC authorities. No new statutory authority required — only property-based prescriptions inside existing rulemakings.

Specific asks

Hearing: 'Carbon market integrity and federal reporting — the per-tonne evidentiary gap.' Witnesses: Haya (Berkeley), Cullenward, Reinhard or Planavsky, a corporate buyer CFO, SEC staff.
Committee request letter to SEC on how climate-disclosure rule substantiation requirements contemplate per-tonne evidentiary records.
Committee request letter to EPA on per-tonne evidentiary properties in any voluntary-market guidance.
Statutory language draft for property-based disclosure prescription in federal procurement, prepared with Trellison's technical input and BPC's bipartisan drafting support.

Briefing appendix materials

Proof-pack schema summary (one page). Roster of willing academic witnesses. Corporate buyer CFO statements on restatement-risk exposure.