Climate Change (generally)
H.R. 501
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Barragan
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
4
Volume
51
Update Issue
5
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H240

would direct the Administrator of EPA to establish a program to award grants to eligible entities to purchase and install, as applicable, zero emissions port equipment and technology.

S. 216
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Sponsor Name
Merkley
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Or.
Issue
4
Volume
51
Update Issue
5
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. S318

would direct the Administrator of EPA to establish a grant program to award grants to eligible entities to purchase and install, as applicable, zero emissions port equipment and technology.

H.R. 744
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Sponsor Name
Clarke
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-N.Y.
Issue
4
Volume
51
Update Issue
5
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H322

would direct the Administrator of FEMA to revise the agency's policy to address the threats of climate change and to include considerations of climate change in its strategic plan.

H.R. 740
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Sponsor Name
Brownley
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
4
Volume
51
Update Issue
5
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H322

would require the Secretary of Transportation to solicit a study on climate-resilient transportation infrastructure.

Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis
E.O. 13990
01/20/2021
86 Fed. Reg. 7037 (Jan. 25, 2021)

Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy.

Marine Protected Areas on the Uncertain Frontiers of Climate Change
Author
Vidya Vijayaraghavan
Author Bios (long)

Vidya Vijayaraghavan is an environmental lawyer from India and received an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2020 as a Vanderbilt Scholar.

Date
February 2021
Volume
51
Issue
2
Page
10116
Type
Articles
Summary

Scientific communities and policy experts argue that marine protected areas (MPAs) will increase the potential of marine ecosystems to tackle climate change impacts. Yet to date, there has been little legal scholarship about how to design, manage, and implement climate-resilient MPAs. This Article underscores the importance of considering climate change in the design, planning, and implementation of MPAs, and identifies mechanisms for incorporating climate change elements into MPAs. It highlights a newly developing international instrument, the draft biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction treaty, that provides opportunities for facilitating creation of MPAs; discusses the relevant articles of the latest draft; and emphasizes the potential to more fully incorporate climate change considerations. It also draws attention to the need to improve national-level frameworks governing MPAs to address climate change.

H.R. 466
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sponsor Name
Gonzalez
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Ohio
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
4
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H231

would prohibit the use of funds to provide for the United States to become a party to the Paris Agreement.

H. Res. 59
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sponsor Name
McKinley
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-W. Va.
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
3
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H223

would express the sense of the House of Representatives that the Paris Agreement shall have no effect in the United States until it is renegotiated and receives the advice and consent to ratification of the U.S. Senate.

H.R. 420
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sponsor Name
Roy
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Tex.
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
3
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H222

would prohibit the use of funds to provide for the United States to become a party to the Paris Agreement.

Subscribe to Climate Change (generally)