H.R. 5650
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.
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.
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.
would amend Title 23, U.S. Code, to require transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
would amend Title 23, U.S. Code, to require transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
would amend Chapter 53, U.S. Code, to increase local bus service to levels needed to combat the climate crisis.
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.
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.
would require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct research relating to measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification of soil carbon sequestration.
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