Climate Change (generally)
S. 1326
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Sponsor Name
Inhofe
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Okla.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
13
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. S2166

would prohibit the Administrator of EPA from issuing greenhouse gas emissions rules or regulations until China, India, and Russia adhere to the same emissions reduction targets as the United States under the Paris Agreement.

H. Con. Res. 31
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Schakowsky
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Ill.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
12
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H2055

would recognize that the climate crisis is disproportionately affecting the health, economic opportunity, and fundamental rights of children; recognize the importance of renewed leadership by the United States in addressing the climate crisis; and recognize the need of the United States to develop a national, comprehensive, and science-based climate recovery plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions, protect and enhance natural sequestration, and put the United States on a path toward stabilizing the climate system.

H. Res. 332
Update Type
Committee Name
Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, Space, and Technology, Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Oversight and Reform
Sponsor Name
Ocasio-Cortez
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-N.Y.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
12
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H1998

would recognize the duty of the federal government to create a Green New Deal.

H.R. 2670
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on Ways and Means
Sponsor Name
Ocasio-Cortez
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-N.Y.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
12
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H1996

would amend the National and Community Service Act to establish a Civilian Climate Corps to help communities respond to climate change and transition to a clean economy.

S. 1244
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Finance
Sponsor Name
Markey
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Mass.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
12
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
. 167 Cong. Rec. S2068

would amend the National and Community Service Act to establish a Civilian Climate Corps to help communities respond to climate change and transition to a clean economy.

H.R. 2639
Update Type
Committee Name
Committees on Foreign Affairs, Natural Resources, Ways and Means, Science, Space, and Technology, and Education and Labor
Sponsor Name
Westerman
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Ark.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
12
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H1953

would establish forest conservation practices through management, reforestation, and utilization which lead to the sequestration of greenhouse gases.

S. 1217
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Sponsor Name
Merkley
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Or.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
12
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. S2012

would amend the Securities Exchange Act to require certain disclosures relating to climate change.

S. 1201
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Relations
Sponsor Name
Menendez
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-N.J.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
12
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. S2011

would restore the United States’ international leadership on climate change and clean energy.

H.R. 2633
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Ways and Means
Sponsor Name
Schweikert
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Ariz.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
12
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H1890

would amend the Internal Revenue Code to increase and expand the credit for carbon oxide sequestration.

H.R. 2613
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Agriculture
Sponsor Name
Newhouse
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Wash.
Issue
6
Volume
51
Update Issue
12
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H1889

would amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act to establish a competitive grant program under which the Secretary of Agriculture provides grants to land-grant colleges and universities to support agricultural producers in adopting conservation and innovative climate practices.

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