Climate Change (generally)
H.R. 5650
Update Type
Committee Name
Committees on Financial Services and Science, Space, and Technology
Sponsor Name
Mullin
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
11
Volume
55
Update Issue
28
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. H4508

would direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a grant program to assist primarily low-income individuals in making their homes and property more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Legal Models for Public-Private City Greening Partnerships
Author
Daniel J. Metzger
Author Bios (long)

Daniel J. Metzger is a Senior Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School.

Date
October 2025
Volume
55
Issue
5
Page
10485
Type
Comment(s)
Summary

Cities are significantly hotter than their surrounding areas. That difference, known as the “urban heat island” effect, is driven in significant part by the dark-colored buildings, sidewalks, roadways, and similar surfaces that dominate urban spaces, absorbing solar energy and later radiating it outward as thermal energy that heats the nearby air. This Comment suggests and describes one avenue through which cities and local community-based organizations (CBOs) could tackle extreme heat: partnering with one another to transform paved surfaces into green or reflective ones. Partnerships of this kind could combine the resources and desire to create green spaces that nongovernmental groups offer with cities’ large portfolios of property.

H.R. 5465
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Sponsor Name
Huffman
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
11
Volume
55
Update Issue
27
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. H4453

would amend Title 23, U.S. Code, to require transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

S. 2890
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Sponsor Name
Markey
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Mass.
Issue
11
Volume
55
Update Issue
27
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. S6730

would amend Title 23, U.S. Code, to require transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

H.R. 5119
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)
Sponsor Name
Peters
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
11
Volume
55
Update Issue
25
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55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. H3829

would amend the National Security Act of 1947 and direct the Director of National Intelligence to produce intelligence community assessments on certain effects of climate change.

H.R. 5104
Update Type
Committee Name
Committees on Energy and Commerce and Science, Space, and Technology
Sponsor Name
Bonamici
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Or.
Issue
11
Volume
55
Update Issue
25
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. H3828

would reduce the health risks of heat by establishing the National Integrated Heat Health Information System within NOAA and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System Interagency Committee to improve extreme heat preparedness, planning, and response, require a study, and establish financial assistance programs to address heat effects.

H.R. 4865
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Agriculture
Sponsor Name
Sorensen
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Ill.
Issue
10
Volume
55
Update Issue
22
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. H3673

would require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct research relating to measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification of soil carbon sequestration.

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