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The bill reinforces and elevates federal climate science—helping enable public-health and mitigation actions and supporting trust in agencies—while risking higher costs for homeowners and energy companies and intensifying partisan conflict over federal science.
Taxpayers, homeowners, and the general public gain clearer scientific grounding for future federal actions to reduce climate-related health and safety risks (heat waves, wildfires, sea-level rise), enabling policymaking that can mitigate those harms.
Federal employees and the public benefit from formal recognition of NASA and the U.S. Global Change Research Program as authoritative sources on climate science, which reinforces institutional credibility and public trust in federal climate research.
Homeowners and mortgage borrowers benefit from explicit acknowledgement that climate risks are affecting insurance and real-estate markets, which can justify future protective policies, funding, or adaptation measures that help protect property values and community resilience.
Homeowners and renters in climate-exposed areas may face higher insurance premiums and stricter mortgage lending as the bill labels climate impacts as disrupting insurance and real-estate markets.
Utilities and energy companies could face increased compliance costs or new regulatory pressure if the stronger factual findings prompt policy or funding changes, with potential downstream effects on energy prices and jobs.
Federal employees and taxpayers could see increased politicization and partisan conflict over climate science because the preamble accuses a prior administration of removing scientific materials and firing staff, which may erode institutional stability or spur litigation.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Makes nonbinding findings affirming human-caused climate change, cites federal research programs, alleges 2025 removal of climate staff/materials, and notes disruptions to insurance and housing markets.
Introduced December 17, 2025 by Sheldon Whitehouse · Last progress December 17, 2025
Declares a set of nonbinding findings about climate science and federal climate programs: it affirms human-caused climate change using citations to NASA, the IPCC, and the U.S. Global Change Research Program, and alleges that in 2025 the Trump administration removed staff and National Climate Assessment materials from the USGCRP website. It also states that climate impacts are disrupting insurance, mortgage, and real estate markets. The text is a preamble-style statement and does not create legal obligations, change statutes, or provide funding.