• Transportation and Infrastructure Committee• Environment Subcommittee• Small Business Committee• Agriculture Committee• Financial Services Committee• Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee• Energy and Commerce Committee• Education and Workforce Committee• Natural Resources Committee
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National Climate Emergency Act of 2021 or the Climate Emergency Act of 2021 This bill directs the President to declare a national emergency with respect to climate change. The President, in responding to the emergency, must ensure that the government invests in large scale mitigation and resiliency projects; makes investments that enable a racially and socially just transition to a clean energy economy by ensuring that at least 40% of investments flow to historically disadvantaged communities; avoids solutions that increase inequality or violate human rights; creates jobs that conform to labor standards that provide family sustaining wages and benefits and ensure safe workplaces; prioritizes local and equitable hiring and contracting that creates opportunities for marginalized communities; combats environmental injustice; and reinvests in existing public sector institutions and creates new public sector institutions to strategically mobilize and channel investments at the scale and pace required by the national emergency. The President shall report annually on actions taken in response to the national emergency.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Agricultural conservation and pollutionAgricultural practices and innovationsAir qualityAlternative and renewable resourcesClimate change and greenhouse gasesDisability and health-based discriminationEconomic developmentEmployment discrimination and employee rightsEnvironmental healthHazardous wastes and toxic substancesIndustrial policy and productivityInfrastructure developmentInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaManufacturingMinority and disadvantaged businessesPresidents and presidential powers, Vice PresidentsRacial and ethnic relationsResidential rehabilitation and home repairRural conditions and developmentSmall businessVeterans' education, employment, rehabilitationWages and earningsWar and emergency powersWetlandsWomen in businessWorker safety and health
Climate Emergency Act of 2021
USA117th CongressHR-794| House
| Updated: 2/5/2021
National Climate Emergency Act of 2021 or the Climate Emergency Act of 2021 This bill directs the President to declare a national emergency with respect to climate change. The President, in responding to the emergency, must ensure that the government invests in large scale mitigation and resiliency projects; makes investments that enable a racially and socially just transition to a clean energy economy by ensuring that at least 40% of investments flow to historically disadvantaged communities; avoids solutions that increase inequality or violate human rights; creates jobs that conform to labor standards that provide family sustaining wages and benefits and ensure safe workplaces; prioritizes local and equitable hiring and contracting that creates opportunities for marginalized communities; combats environmental injustice; and reinvests in existing public sector institutions and creates new public sector institutions to strategically mobilize and channel investments at the scale and pace required by the national emergency. The President shall report annually on actions taken in response to the national emergency.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
• Transportation and Infrastructure Committee• Environment Subcommittee• Small Business Committee• Agriculture Committee• Financial Services Committee• Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee• Energy and Commerce Committee• Education and Workforce Committee• Natural Resources Committee
Agricultural conservation and pollutionAgricultural practices and innovationsAir qualityAlternative and renewable resourcesClimate change and greenhouse gasesDisability and health-based discriminationEconomic developmentEmployment discrimination and employee rightsEnvironmental healthHazardous wastes and toxic substancesIndustrial policy and productivityInfrastructure developmentInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaManufacturingMinority and disadvantaged businessesPresidents and presidential powers, Vice PresidentsRacial and ethnic relationsResidential rehabilitation and home repairRural conditions and developmentSmall businessVeterans' education, employment, rehabilitationWages and earningsWar and emergency powersWetlandsWomen in businessWorker safety and health