The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold three days of hearings this week on a revised draft of climate change legislation the panel is looking to mark up soon.

Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., Friday released their latest cap-and-trade strategy Friday, as well as an EPA cost analysis. Boxer has said she hopes to mark it up next week in her panel.

On Tuesday, her committee will hear from five administration officials -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff.

Twenty-seven witnesses separated in four panels will testify Wednesday and 22 final witnesses Thursday, also stretched over four panels. Other notable witnesses this week include former Sen. John Warner, R-Va., on Wednesday, and former Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, now head of the Center for American Progress, on Thursday. (See a complete list of witnesses after the jump.)

Environment and Public Works ranking member James Inhofe, R-Okla., told reporters Friday -- before the revised Boxer-Kerry bill and EPA's analysis were released -- that he and the other six Republicans on the panel would prevent the necessary quorum from being present at a markup unless they are satisfied at the thoroughness of the analysis and if sufficient bill text is available for review in advance.

"We're not being unreasonable," Inhofe said. "We're just saying the only leverage we have is the quorum leverage. Obviously if we just get stonewalled, we'll use it."

Committee rules require at least two Republicans to be present at a markup. Inhofe said Democrats prevented a markup of a Republican environmental bill -- the "Clear Skies" measure -- three times in late 2004 and early 2005 by not showing up. Inhofe said an EPA analysis earlier this year of a House climate bill is "pretty thorough and I would expect that they would do the same at our request."

Hearing 1 -- Tuesday, 9:30 a.m., Dirksen 406

• Energy Secretary Chu
• Transportation Secretary LaHood
• Interior Secretary Salazar
• EPA Administrator Jackson
• FERC Chairman Wellinghoff

Hearing 2 -- Wednesday, 9:30 a.m., Dirksen 406

Panel I: Jobs and Economic Opportunities
• Peter Brehm, vice president of business development and government relations, Infinia Corp.
• Dan Reicher, director of climate and energy initiatives, Google
• Dave Foster, executive director, Blue Green Alliance
• Michael Nutter, Philadelphia mayor
• Kate Gordon, senior policy adviser, Apollo Alliance
• Bill Klesse, chairman and CEO, Valero Energy Corp.
• Brett A. Vassey, president and CEO, Virginia Manufacturers Association

Panel II: National Security
• Retired Sen. John Warner, R-Va.
• Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for strategy, plans and forces, Defense Department
• Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn (Ret.), member of the Military Advisory Board, Center for Naval Analyses
• Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales (Ret.)
• Drew Sloan, fellow at the Truman National Security Project
• Lt. Col. James Jay Carafano (Ret.), deputy director, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, and director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, both at the Heritage Foundation

Panel III: Utilities
• David Crane, president and CEO, NRG Energy
• Ralph Izzo, chairman, CEO and president of Public Service Enterprise Group
• Kevin Law, president and CEO, Long Island Power Authority
• Nathaniel Keohane, director of economic policy and analysis, Environmental Defense Fund
• Joel Bluestein, president of Energy and Environmental Analysis at ICF International
• Barry Hart, CEO of the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives
• Dustin Johnson, commissioner, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission

Panel IV: Adaptation
• Shari Wilson, Secretary, Maryland Environment Department
• Ronald E. Young, president, California Association of Sanitation Agencies
• Peter C. Frumhoff, chief scientist, Climate Campaign, Union of Concerned Scientists
• Larry J. Schweiger, president and CEO, National Wildlife Federation
• Fawn Sharp, president, Quinault Indian Nation
• Jim Sims, president and CEO, Western Business Roundtable
• Kenneth P. Green, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Hearing 3 -- Thursday, 9:30 a.m., Dirksen 406

• Panel I: Moving to a Clean Energy Economy
• Preston Chiaro, CEO, Energy Product Group, Rio Tinto
• John Rowe, chairman, president and CEO, Exelon Corp.
• Willett Kempton, marine policy professor, University of Delaware
• Bob Winger, president, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Local 11
• Fred Krupp, president, Environmental Defense Fund
• Mike Carey, president, Ohio Coal Association
• Bob Stallman, president, American Farm Bureau Federation

Panel II: Transportation
• Sherwood Boehlert, co-chair, Bipartisan Policy Center's National Transportation Policy Project
• William Millar, president, American Public Transportation Association
• Mike McKeever, executive director, Sacramento Area Council of Governments
• Barbara J. Windsor, president and CEO, Hahn Transportation

Panel III: Actions in Other Countries
• John Podesta, president and CEO, Center for American Progress
• Ned Helme, president, Center for Clean Air Policy
• Jonathan Lash, president, World Resources Institute
• Iain Murray, director of projects and analysis, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Panel IV: Moving to a Clean Energy Economy
• Linda Adams, Secretary, California EPA
• Dave Johnson, director, Laborers' Eastern Region Organizing Fund, Laborers' International Union of North America
• J. Stephan Dolezalek, managing director, VantagePoint Venture Partners
• David Hawkins, director, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Eugene Trisko, attorney on behalf of the United Mine Workers of America
• Charlie Smith, president and CEO, CountryMark
• Paul Cicio, president, Industrial Energy Consumers of America

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