Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Lieberman, I/D-Conn., might offer Senate colleagues and key interest groups an outline for their climate and energy strategy this week.

The three are scheduled to sit down Wednesday with a large gathering of business and industry groups and industry officials, who were told last week that they would likely be given a narrative outline for a proposal.

If so, centrist senators who would be crucial to getting a filibuster-proof margin would be expected to be given a look at the outline early this week.

Kerry, Graham and Lieberman have been ramping up meetings in recent weeks to cut a deal. Last week, Obama sat down with about a dozen senators to hear what they would need to support a bill putting a price on industrial carbon emissions and ramping up domestic nuclear, oil and gas and other production.

Kerry, Graham and Lieberman have verbally laid out the idea of implementing a cap-and-trade program on electric utilities early and then phasing in manufacturers, while levying a carbon tax on transportation fuels. But many details -- including how much lead time manufacturers would be given -- need to be worked out.

After the jump, see the major hearings and other events going on this week.

Here are the major hearings we know about so far:

• Tuesday: The House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming holds a hearing to discuss the impacts of black carbon pollution. Experts scheduled to testify include NASA scientist Drew Shindell and professors. (10 a.m., 1310 Longworth House Office Building.)

• Tuesday: A House Appropriations subcommittee holds a hearing on a portion of the Energy Department's FY 2011 budget proposal focusing on environmental management and legacy management. (2 p.m., 2362-B Rayburn House Office Building).

• Wednesday: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will consider the nomination of Jeffrey Lane to be assistant secretary of Energy for congressional and intergovernmental affairs. (9:30 a.m., 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building.)

• Wednesday: A House Appropriations subcommittee holds a hearing on another portion of DOE's budget proposal: programs addressing energy efficiency and renewable energy, fossil fuels, electricity delivery and energy reliability. (10 a.m., 2362-B Rayburn.)

• Thursday: A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee holds a hearing on the HomeStar retrofit program. (9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn).

• Thursday: A House Appropriations subcommittee holds a hearing on DOE's science budget. Energy Undersecretary for Science Steven Koonin, Science Office Director William Brinkman and Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Arun Majumdar testify. (10 a.m., 2362-B Rayburn.)

Other events:

• Today: The Environmental and Energy Study Institute holds a briefing on electricity as a transportation fuel. Patrick Davis, program manager for the Energy Department's Vehicle Technologies Program, is scheduled to speak. (2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.)

• Today: The International Code Council holds a news conference to announce the first public version of the International Green Construction Code. (2 p.m., National Association of Realtors Building, 500 New Jersey Ave. NW.)

• Today: Energy Secretary Steven Chu will address the 2010 Congressional Cities Conference. (3:50 p.m., Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW.)

• Thursday: The Woodrow Wilson Center holds a discussion on the smart grid. Patricia Hoffman, assistant secretary for electricity delivery and energy reliability at DOE, is scheduled to speak. (9 a.m., One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW).

• Thursday: The American Enterprise Institute holds a discussion on electricity deregulation. (1 p.m., AEI, 1150 17th St. NW.)

• Thursday: The Environmental and Energy Study Institute holds a briefing on the renewable fuel standard and cellulosic biofuels. (2 p.m., 385 Russell Senate Office Building.)

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