HCONRES 119
116th Congress
House
Environmental Protection
Air quality
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Economic performance and conditions
Environmental health
Protest and dissent
Recognizing that the climate crisis is disproportionately affecting the health, economic opportunity, and fundamental rights of children; recognizing the importance of renewed leadership by the United States in addressing the climate crisis; and recognizing 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.
Introduced: September 23, 2020
Introduced by:
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Democratic
· Illinois
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Sep 23, 2020
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Sep 23, 2020
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
This resolution calls for renewed U.S. leadership in addressing the climate crisis that is disproportionately affecting the health, economic opportunity, and fundamental rights of children. It also recognizes the need for the executive branch to prepare a climate recovery plan that puts the United States on a trajectory consistent with reducing global atmospheric carbon dioxide to below 350 parts per million by the year 2100.
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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