Sponsors (78)
The resolution emphasizes science and the disproportionate harms of climate change—potentially mobilizing support for vulnerable communities and clean‑energy investment—while remaining nonbinding and risking politicization and short‑term economic/regulatory disruption for fossil‑fuel regions.
Children, racial/ethnic minorities, and low-income communities are explicitly identified as disproportionately harmed, which elevates their needs in federal discourse and can build political momentum for targeted relief and stronger pollution controls.
Federal affirmation of scientific consensus and protection of federal research access increases transparency and helps safeguard climate data and evidence-based policymaking.
Stating an accelerated transition to renewables signals federal policy direction that could spur private investment and job growth in clean-energy industries.
The resolution is non‑binding and contains no new funding or legal requirements, so it may raise expectations among vulnerable communities without delivering concrete remedies.
Framing current policy as a public‑health emergency and quantifying associated deaths could prompt litigation and regulatory uncertainty that may raise energy costs or threaten jobs in fossil‑fuel regions.
Strongly worded findings critical of the administration risk politicizing agency operations and complicating cooperative federal–state implementation in the near term.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Makes non‑binding congressional findings criticizing fossil‑fuel promotion and urging an accelerated renewable energy transition and CO2 stabilization below 350 ppm.
Official title: Recognizing a health and safety emergency disproportionately affecting the fundamental rights of children due to the Trump administration's directives that unleash fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, while suppressing climate change science.
Introduced July 16, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress July 16, 2025
Declares non‑binding congressional findings about the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act, and federal actions that promoted fossil fuels and suppressed climate science. It states asserted harms from those actions — including increased deaths, rising CO2 concentrations, and disproportionate impacts on children and vulnerable communities — and urges an accelerated transition to renewable energy and stabilization of atmospheric CO2 below 350 ppm. Does not change any law, create new duties, or provide funding; it is a statement of findings, purposes, and policy positions only.