SILVERADO NEWS

NATIONAL SECURITY: Silverado hosted its Leadership and Service Forum: Portraits in Public Service and National Security featuring Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and CBS News’ Olivia Gazis. Read highlights from the event here.

ECO²SEC: Silverado’s Deputy Executive Director Adina Renee Adler published a new blog that looks at the ways circular economy can lead to better environmental outcomes.

GEOPOLITICS: In a new episode of the Geopolitics Decanted podcast, Silverado’s Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Dmitri Alperovitch speaks with Michael Kofman and Henry Schlottman about new developments in the war in Ukraine.

Here’s what caught our eye this week:

KEY ADMINISTRATION ACTIONS

White House:

• FACT SHEET: The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid
• FACT SHEET: The United States Continues to Strengthen Cooperation with G7 on 21st Century Challenges, including those Posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
• FACT SHEET: President Biden Signs National Security Memorandum to Combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Labor Abuses
• Proclamation on Increasing Duties on Certain Articles from the Russian Federation
• Joint Statement by President Biden and President von der Leyen on European Energy Security
• FACT SHEET: The United States and G7 to Take Further Action to Support Ukraine and Hold the Russian Federation Accountable

Office of the United States Trade Representative:

• Statement by Ambassador Katherine Tai on New G7 Sanctions Commitments
• United States and Taiwan Hold Inaugural Meeting of the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade

Department of Commerce:

• Bureau of Industry and Security Announces Changes to Administrative Enforcement Program
• Secretary Raimondo Meets with Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness
• ICYMI: Three Companies Warn About Delayed Chip Funding As GlobalWafers Announcement Hinges On Biparistan Innovation Act Passage
• Commerce Rule Applies Powerful Restrictions Directly on Entities Seeking to Supply Russia’s Military Since Start of Invasion of Ukraine
• FinCEN and BIS Issue Joint Alert on Potential Russian and Belarusian Export Control Evasion Attempts
• GlobalWafers Selects Sherman, Texas for New Semiconductor Silicon Wafer Site

Department of Defense:

• FACT SHEET - U.S. Defense Contributions to Europe
• Reports of Disinformation Campaign Against Rare Earth Processing Facilities

Department of the Treasury:

• Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs Task Force Joint Statement
• U.S. Treasury Sanctions Nearly 100 Targets in Putin’s War Machine, Prohibits Russian Gold Imports

Department of Energy:

• Biden Administration Launches $500 Million Program to Transform Mines Into New Clean Energy Hubs
• Biden Administration Launches $630 Million in Programs to Modernize Nation’s Hydropower Fleet

Department of State:

• Targeting Russia’s War Machine, Sanctions Evaders, Military Units Credibly Implicated in Human Rights Abuses, and Russian Federation Officials Involved in Suppression of Dissent
• United States Takes Next Step in Supporting Innovative Clean Nuclear Technology in Europe

CONGRESSIONAL ACTION

House Ways and Means Committee:

• Neal Applauds Biden Administration’s Increased Duties on Russian Goods
  

House Foreign Affairs Committee:

• Chairman Meeks Releases July HFAC Schedule

House Committee on Energy & Commerce:

• Hearing: No Time to Waste: Solutions for America’s Broken Recycling System

House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology:

• Science Committee Members Introduce Bill to Build a Strong and Diverse Chip Workforce