Climate Change (generally)
H.R. 3623
Update Type
Committee Action
Committee Name
Committee on Financial Services and Committee on Energy and Commerce
Committee Report
H. Rep. No. 116-563, Pt. 1
Issue
12
Volume
50
Update Issue
32
Update Volume
50
Congress Number
116
Congressional Record Number
166 Cong. Rec. H5710

would amend the Securities Exchange Act to require issuers to disclose certain activities relating to climate change.

H.R. 8632
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committees on Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, House Administration, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Foreign Affairs
Sponsor Name
Grijalva
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Ariz.
Issue
12
Volume
50
Update Issue
31
Update Volume
50
Congress Number
116
Congressional Record Number
166 Cong. Rec. H5698

would direct the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of NOAA, to provide for ocean-based climate solutions to reduce carbon emissions and global warming; to make coastal communities more resilient; and to provide for the conservation and restoration of ocean and coastal habitats, biodiversity, and marine mammal and fish populations.

H.R. 8613
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on House Administration
Sponsor Name
Neguse
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Colo.
Issue
12
Volume
50
Update Issue
31
Update Volume
50
Congress Number
116
Congressional Record Number
166 Cong. Rec. H5693

would direct the Comptroller General of the United States, in coordination with the National Academy of Sciences, to study alternatives for a nonpartisan congressional office or agency to project the net greenhouse gas emissions likely to be caused by federal legislation.

H.R. 8429
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Oversight and Reform
Sponsor Name
Maloney
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-N.Y.
Issue
11
Volume
50
Update Issue
29
Update Volume
50
Congress Number
116
Congressional Record Number
166 Cong. Rec. H5051

would amend Chapter 3 of Title 5, U.S. Code, to require federal agencies to submit plans for responding to, mitigating, and adapting to climate change.

Back to the Future: Creating a Bipartisan Environmental Movement for the 21st Century
Author
David M. Uhlmann
Author Bios (long)

David M. Uhlmann is the Jeffrey F. Liss Professor From Practice and Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program at the University of Michigan Law School.

Date
October 2020
Volume
50
Issue
10
Page
10800
Type
Comment(s)
Summary

With a contentious presidential election looming amidst a pandemic, economic worries, and historic protests against systemic racism, climate action may seem less pressing than other challenges. Nothing could be further from the truth. To prevent greater public health threats and economic dislocation from climate disruption, which will disproportionately harm Black Americans, people of color, and indigenous people, this Comment argues that we need to restore the bipartisanship that fueled the environmental movement and that the fate of the planet—and our children and grandchildren—depends upon our collective action.

S. 4736
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Sponsor Name
Klobuchar
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Minn.
Issue
11
Volume
50
Update Issue
29
Update Volume
50
Congress Number
116
Congressional Record Number
166 Cong. Rec. S5865

would prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change.

S. Con. Res. 47
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Sponsor Name
Merkley
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Or.
Issue
11
Volume
50
Update Issue
28
Update Volume
50
Congress Number
116
Congressional Record Number
166 Cong. Rec. S5833

would recognize that the climate crisis is disproportionately affecting the health, economic opportunity, and fundamental rights of children, express the sense of Congress that renewed leadership by the United States is needed to address 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. Con. Res. 119
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Schakowsky
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Ill.
Issue
11
Volume
50
Update Issue
28
Update Volume
50
Congress Number
116
Congressional Record Number
166 Cong. Rec. H4884

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 towards stabilizing the climate system.

H.R. 8174
Update Type
Bills Introduced
Committee Name
Committee on Oversight and Reform and Committee on the Judiciary
Sponsor Name
McEachin
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Va.
Issue
11
Volume
50
Update Issue
27
Update Volume
50
Congress Number
116
Congressional Record Number
166 Cong. Rec. H4325

would establish a cost of greenhouse gases for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide to be used by federal agencies.

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