Climate

DIPLOMA Act

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2026

Developing Innovative Partnerships and Learning Opportunities that Motivate Achievement Act or DIPLOMA Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award renewable five year grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local consortia that include a local educational agency (LEA) and other community partners to: (1) ensure the academic, physical, social, emotional, and civic development of disadvantaged youth; and (2) strengthen their families and communities. Requires each state grantee to develop and implement a state child and youth strategy that assesses children's needs and the assets within the state that can be mobilized, coordinated, and integrated to achieve quantifiable progress toward goals that include ensuring that: (1) children are ready for school; (2) students are engaged and achieving in school; (3) students are physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally healthy; (4) schools and neighborhoods are safe and provide a positive climate for learning; (5) families are supportive and engaged in their children's education; (6) students are ready for postsecondary education and 21st Century careers; and (7) students are contributing to their communities. Directs the consortia to develop and implement a local child and youth strategy that integrates multiple private and public services into a comprehensive, coordinated continuum of services directed toward achieving quantifiable progress toward such goals. Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants directly to local consortia if appropriated funds fall below a specified amount.

SAVE Act

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2026

Safe Schools Against Violence in Education Act or the SAVE Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states to allow a student who is attending a public school that does not have a safe climate for academic achievement, or who becomes a victim of a violent criminal offense while on school grounds, at a school event, or on a school bus to transfer to a safe public school within the school district. (Currently, the school must be persistently dangerous and the offense must occur on school grounds.) Requires states to: (1) permit schools to provide counseling and educational services to violent offenders in alternative settings; (2) require schools that know a violent offender is returning to school to notify the victim's parents that the offender is returning; and (3) provide school students, families, and staff with an annual report containing certain school crime statistics. Requires a state's determination that a school is unsafe to: (1) be based on those school crime statistics and certain other school data that the state is to collect; (2) be relayed to local educational agencies (LEAs) so that LEAs can relay such information to parents in a timely manner; and (3) result in ameliorative efforts by unsafe schools. Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) make school crime statistics publicly available; and (2) publish a handbook to assist states and LEAs in meeting this Act's school crime, offense, and incident disclosure requirements. Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program to augment the information LEAs must provide to states concerning students with guns to include incidents that do not involve a student's expulsion and school-related off-campus incidents, including those involving non-students. Includes bullying and cyberbullying prevention, and emergency preparedness in the federal activities required under the program. Directs the Secretary to fund schoolwide climate surveys of students, parents, and school personnel for use in creating collaborative plans for school improvement. Gives funding priority to unsafe schools.

A bill to authorize United States participation in, and appropriations for, the United States contribution to the ninth replenishment of the resources of the Asian Development Fund and the United States subscription to the fifth general capital increase of the Asian Development Bank.

United States · United States Congress · 11 December 2025

Amends the Asian Development Bank Act to authorize the United States Governor of the Asian Development Bank to: (1) contribute on behalf of the United States to the ninth replenishment of the resources of the Asian Development Fund; and (2) subscribe on behalf of the United States to additional shares of the capital stock of the Bank. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank to: (1) advocate for the Bank to encourage best practices in the areas of climate change adaptation, water resource management, aquatic and terrestrial systems management, and food security; and (2) encourage the Bank to enhance its coordination with other multilateral and bilateral assistance programs in the Mekong River Basin to reduce risks to the region's environment, economy, and food security. States that it is U.S. policy to: (1) support the adoption of policies and practices that ensure conflict sensitivity in lending; (2) discourage multilateral development banks from providing financing for coal-fired power plants unless the bank has provided financing or technical assistance to develop the borrower country's capacity to examine alternatives to coal-fired power; and (3) promote the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies and provide financial assistance to support deployment of sustainable clean energy in developing countries.

Maintaining Agency Direction on Financial Fraud Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025

Maintaining Agency Direction on Financial Fraud Act - Prohibits any interpretive guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission which relates to "Commission Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change" from taking effect with respect to any person on or after February 2, 2010.

Maintaining Agency Direction on Financial Fraud Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025

Maintaining Agency Direction on Financial Fraud Act - Prohibits any interpretive guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission which relates to "Commission Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change" from taking effect with respect to any person on or after February 2, 2010.

Developing Innovative Partnerships and Learning Opportunities that Motivate Achievement Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025

Developing Innovative Partnerships and Learning Opportunities that Motivate Achievement Act (DIPLOMA Act) - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award renewable five year grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local consortia that include a local educational agency (LEA) and other community partners to: (1) ensure the academic, physical, social, emotional, and civic development of disadvantaged youth; and (2) strengthen their families and communities. Requires each state grantee to develop and implement a state child and youth strategy that assesses children's needs and the assets within the state that can be mobilized, coordinated, and integrated to achieve quantifiable progress toward goals that include ensuring that: (1) children are ready for school; (2) students are engaged and achieving in school; (3) students are physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally healthy; (4) schools and neighborhoods are safe and provide a positive climate for learning; (5) families are supportive and engaged in their children's education; (6) students are ready for postsecondary education and 21st Century careers; and (7) students are contributing to their communities. Directs the consortia to develop and implement a local child and youth strategy that integrates multiple private and public services into a comprehensive, coordinated continuum of services directed toward achieving quantifiable progress toward such goals. Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants directly to local consortia if appropriated funds fall below a specified amount.

De uitzending 'Zet het klimaat op 1'

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 25 November 2025

De uitzending 'Zet het klimaat op 1'

Public Access to Historical Records Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Public Access to Historical Records Act - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to establish an official dataset on the historical temperature record. Requires NASA to utilize the raw data related to temperature that is collected by applicable stations and vessels and to quantify the statistical uncertainty of each temperature observation and any subsequent products based on that observation. Requires the gaps that exist in temperature station and temperature reading data to be clearly and fully identified. Creates a panel to assist the Administrator in the establishment of the dataset. Requires the Administrator of NASA, at least once every three years, to contract with an appropriate independent entity to perform a verification and validation of the dataset and requires the publication of any algorithms utilized, and any determinations made, in verifying and validating the dataset. Requires persons and entities engaged in global climate research funded by the federal government to utilize the dataset as a source of data on the historical temperature record. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to provide for the immediate release of: (1) all raw temperature station data from cooperative observers and automated stations collected by the National Climatic Data Center; and (2) an analysis of the differences between raw and final temperature datasets collected by the Center.

SELF Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

States as Energy Leaders for the Future Act or SELF Act - Establishes in the Department of Energy (DOE) a program to provide grants to eligible entities, on a competitive basis, to develop and carry out clean energy and carbon reduction measures, such as renewable electricity standards, regional or statewide climate action plans, and participation in a regional greenhouse gas reduction program. Directs the Secretary of DOE, in establishing criteria for grants, to take into account: (1) regional disparities in the ways in which energy is produced and used; and (2) the clean energy resource potential of the measures. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the definition of "domestic production gross receipts" for purposes of the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production, the gross receipts of a major integrated oil company which are derived from oil related qualified production activities.

Practical Energy and Climate Plan Act of 2010

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Practical Energy and Climate Plan Act of 2010 - Revises the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards by requiring at least a 4% annual increase in the average fuel economy level beginning in model year 2017, unless the standards are technologically unachievable, cannot be achieved without materially reducing the overall safety of automobiles, or are not cost effective. Requires the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to: (1) prescribe separate standards for passenger and non-passenger automobiles to achieve a combined fuel economy average of at least 34.1 miles per gallon for model year 2016 (currently 35 miles per gallon for model year 2020) for the total fleet of automobiles manufactured; and (2) determine the greatest achievable fuel efficiency improvement targets for rules pertaining to commercial medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and work trucks. Authorizes the Secretary to implement regulations for vehicle classes and components of such vehicles on an accelerated basis. Requires manufacturers to ensure that 50% of automobiles and light duty trucks manufactured in model years 2013-2014 are dual fueled (90% in 2015 and subsequent model years). Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to require an electric utility to obtain no less than 15% of the base quantity of electricity it sells to consumers from diverse energy for 2015-2019, 20% for 2020-2024, 25% for 2025-2029, 30% for 2030-2049, and 50% for 2050. Requires the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to establish a federal diverse energy credit trading program. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish an incentive program to permanently retire conventional coal plants with the largest pollution-related liabilities. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) replace the incentive program for the production of cellulosic biofuels with one for the production of renewable fuels; and (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer funding to the Secretary of Energy for the cost of loan guarantees to promote the development of advanced nuclear energy facilities. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a refundable and transferable income tax credit for fuel savings amounts achieved by a new qualified fuel-efficient motor vehicle; and (2) impose an excise tax on the sale of a fuel guzzler motor. Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to require the Secretary of Energy to: (1) update national model building energy codes at least every three years; and (2) establish targets for overall energy savings in buildings and minimum building efficiency standards. Establishes in DOE a Homes and Buildings Energy Retrofits Program that has an annual target energy efficiency retrofit rate of 5% for homes and 2% for commercial buildings. Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to: (1) direct federal agencies to ensure that new federal buildings are designed to enhance energy efficiency; (2) revise requirements concerning agency procurement of energy efficient products; and (3) direct agency heads to implement best management practices for energy-efficient management of servers and data centers. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans to public power districts, public utility districts, or specified electric cooperatives that borrowed and repaid, prepaid, or are paying electric loan made or guaranteed by the Rural Utilities Service for making loans to consumers for implementing energy efficient measures. Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to: (1) require the Secretary of Energy to carry out a grant program to pay the federal share of creating a revolving loan program for manufacturers to implement commercially available technologies or processes that significantly reduce system energy intensity and improve U.S. industrial competitiveness; (2) include computer monitors and displays as covered products under the energy conservation program for consumer products other than automobiles; and (3) require the Secretary to establish an energy conservation standard for each type or class of covered industrial equipment.

Clean Energy Infrastructure for Rural Communities Act of 2010

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Clean Energy Infrastructure for Rural Communities Act of 2010 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make electric loans for transmission facilities primarily for interconnecting renewable energy facilities to a high-voltage transmission line. Revokes the requirement that the rate of an electric loan for renewable energy be equal to the average tax-exempt municipal bond rate of similar maturities. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to: (1) authorize the Secretary to make and insure loans to improve the economic and environmental climate by encouraging the development and construction of infrastructure to provide access to natural gas in rural communities; and (2) define "natural gas" as unmixed natural gas or any mixture of natural and artificial gas.

NEPA Certainty Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

NEPA Certainty Act - Declares that the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) should not be used to document, predict, or mitigate the climate effects of specific federal actions. Provides that compliance with NEPA does not include consideration of: (1) the greenhouse gas emissions, or any climate change effects of those emissions, of a proposed action and alternative actions; or (2) the relationship of climate change effects to a proposed action or alternatives, including the relationship to proposal design, environmental impacts, mitigation, and adaptation measures. Declares that this Act does not preempt or interfere with: (1) any authority to consider the climate change effects of proposed legislation or regulations specifically addressing greenhouse gas emissions; or (2) requirements to consider the potential effects of climate change on proposals for agency action during planning or design processes under provisions of law other than NEPA.

Long Island Sound Improvement Act Amendments of 2010

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Long Island Sound Improvement Act Amendments of 2010 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to create additional duties for the Long Island Sound Office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including studying the impacts of climate change on the Sound watershed. Requires a municipality that owns or operates a municipal separate storm sewer system to obtain, without regard to the size of the population served by the system, a permit for discharges composed entirely of stormwater for any portion of the municipality that is located within both the Long Island Sound watershed and an urbanized area. Authorizes such permits to be issued on a regional basis. Requires the EPA Administrator to ensure that: (1) permits held by industrial stormwater dischargers and permits held by construction activity dischargers conform to regional permits' conditions; and (2) monitoring requirements are included in a regional permit. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to municipalities with respect to establishing regional permits. Establishes: (1) reporting requirements for the Office; and (2) requirements directing agencies to ensure that their property, actions, and activities within the watershed are consistent with the Long Island Sound Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (Plan) and to develop plans to maximize forest cover and riparian habitat and minimize stormwater discharge on agency property. Requires the Administrator to establish a voluntary interstate nitrogen trading program with respect to the Sound that includes the generation, trading, and use of nitrogen credits to facilitate the attainment and maintenance of the Sound Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). Authorizes: (1) grants for a prioritized list of projects and studies that will assist in meeting the Plan's goals and objectives; and (2) the Administrator to make grants for the construction of a publicly owned treatment work within Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont solely to a municipal or state agency if the state has established allocations for discharges within the state in a Long Island Sound TMDL. Requires the Administrator to: (1) consider the use of innovative stormwater management practices and approaches in meeting the requirements of the Act; and (2) implement a pilot project to demonstrate the efficacy of nutrient bioextraction for the removal of nitrogen and phosphorous from the waters of the Sound watershed.

Waste-to-Energy Technology Act of 2010

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Waste-to-Energy Technology Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 30% energy tax credit for investment in qualified waste-to-energy property. Defines "qualified waste-to-energy property" as property comprising a system that uses municipal solid waste or sewage sludge as the feedstock for producing solid, liquid, or gas fuel, and that is certified by the Secretary of the Treasury as eligible for a credit under this Act. Excludes certain landfill facilities from such definition. Requires the Secretary to establish criteria for awarding certifications for waste-to-energy projects, which shall include: (1) the commercial viability of such projects; (2) whether such projects will provide the greatest net impact in avoiding or reducing air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases; and (3) whether such projects pose the fewest risks (other than climate risks) to environmental and human health.

Investing in Our Future Act of 2010

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Investing in Our Future Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on currency transactions exceeding $10,000 equal to 0.005% of the value of the currency acquired in the transaction (currency transaction tax). Establishes in the Treasury: (1) the Child Care Assistance Trust Fund, which shall be funded with 20% of the revenues from the currency transactions tax and which shall be used to provide increased allocations to states for child care assistance; (2) the Multilateral Global Health Trust Fund, which shall be funded with 40% of the revenues from such tax and from which the Secretary of State shall make grants to assist developing countries in addressing HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal mortality, family planning, neglected diseases, and other health issues; and (3) the Global Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Trust Fund, which shall be funded with 40% of the revenues from such tax and which shall be used for contributions to a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change global climate fund for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit the Secretary of Education from providing education funding to any educational agency or institution that allows school personnel to inflict corporal punishment upon a student as a form of punishment or to modify undesirable behavior. Requires each state to submit a plan to the Secretary, within 18 months of this Act's enactment and every third year thereafter, that describes how the state eliminates the use of corporal punishment in schools and makes school personnel and parents aware of its policies and procedures for doing so. Authorizes the Secretary to award three-year grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to assist them in improving school climate and culture by implementing school-wide positive behavior supports. Requires grant and subgrant funds to be used for professional training, technical assistance, research, and outreach regarding positive behavior supports. Requires LEAs to ensure that private school personnel can participate, on an equitable basis, in activities supported by such funds. Authorizes the Secretary to allocate funds to the Secretary of the Interior to carry out such activities with regard to schools operated or funded by the Department of the Interior. Directs the Secretary to conduct a national assessment to determine compliance with this Act's requirements and identify best practices regarding positive behavior support professional training programs. Gives Protection and Advocacy Systems the authority provided under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 to investigate, monitor, and enforce this Act's protections for students.

LEASE Act of 2010

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Limit Executive Actions Suspending Energy Act of 2010 or the LEASE Act of 2010 - Prohibits the head of any federal agency from taking any administrative action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (including by issuing orders, promulgating regulations, or otherwise regulating, monitoring, mitigating, predicting, or documenting such emissions) for purposes of addressing climate change unless a federal statute expressly and specifically authorizes such action.

Green Energy Efficient Roofs and Job Creation Act of 2010

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Green Energy Efficient Roofs and Job Creation Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to classify as 20-year property for depreciation purposes a roof replacement on a commercial building during 2010 or 2011 with a roof assembly which has the new insulation installed entirely above the roof deck and which meets or exceeds the minimum R-value for the appropriate climate zone as specified in the International Energy Conservation Code.

Department of Energy Office of Science Authorization Act of 2010

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 2025

Department of Energy Office of Science Authorization Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out, through the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities in science in support of missions of DOE. Requires the Director of the Office of Science to: (1) carry out a basic energy sciences program to provide scientific foundations for new energy technologies; and (2) support construction of the National Synchrotron Light Source II and a Second Target Station at the Spallation Neutron Source. Requires the Director to carry out a grant program to provide awards for up to five years to multi-institutional collaborations or other appropriate entities for meeting energy research, development, demonstration, and commercial application needs identified in: (1) the Grand Challenges report; (2) energy-related Grand Challenges for Engineering; or (3) other relevant reports identified by the Director. Requires the Director to carry out a biological, climate, and environmental systems science research program to support DOE energy and environmental missions. Provides for a biological systems science subprogram and a climate and environmental sciences research subprogram. Directs the Secretary to develop a comprehensive plan of federally supported research and development activities to support energy and environmental missions of DOE and to accelerate the growth of a synthetic biology industry in the United States. Directs the Secretary to carry out an inertial fusion energy research and technology development program. Requires the Director to carry out: (1) an advanced scientific computing research program; (2) a fusion energy sciences research program; (3) a high energy physics program; (4) a nuclear physics research program; and (5) a program for improving infrastructure at Office of Science laboratories. Requires the Secretary to submit specified reports. Authorizes appropriations for FY2011-FY2015 to the Secretary for activities of the Office of Science for (1) basic science energy sciences; (2) biological and environmental research; and (3) advanced scientific computing research.

Raising awareness of school pushout and promoting dignity in schools.

United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025

States that the House of Representatives: (1) promotes a heightened awareness by educators and the public about the spectrum of policies and practices that lead to school pushout (students being effectively pushed out of school); (2) commits to working with states, local educational agencies, and schools to reduce or eliminate school suspensions, expulsions, arrests, corporal punishment, and placements in disciplinary alternative schools; (3) understands that proper behavior is not implicit but should be taught from an early age; (4) acknowledges that continuous teacher training and support enables teachers to give students the social skills and behaviors that improve the teaching and learning environment; (5) recognizes the need to improve the collection and use of school climate and disciplinary data; and (6) supports community collaborations and meaningful parental involvement to ensure that schools are safe, respectful, responsible, and effective teaching and learning environments.

Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2011

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025

Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2011 - Makes FY2011 appropriations for the Department of State (Department) for: (1) administration of foreign affairs and diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the civilian stabilization initiative; (3) the Capital Investment Fund; (4) the Office of Inspector General; (5) educational and cultural exchange programs; (6) representation allowances; (7) protection of foreign missions and officials; (8) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (9) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (10) the repatriation loans program account; (11) the American Institute in Taiwan; (12) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (13) international organizations, peacekeeping, and commissions; (14) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (15) salaries and expenses; (16) plan preparation and construction of authorized projects; (17) the International Joint Commission, the International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada, and the Border Environment Cooperation Commission; (18) international fisheries commissions; (19) international broadcasting operations and capital improvements; (20) the Asia Foundation; (21) the United States Institute for Peace; (22) the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund; (23) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (24) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (25) the East-West Center; (26) the National Endowment for Democracy; (27) the Commission for Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (28) the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; (29) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (30) the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; and (31) the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Makes FY2011 appropriations for: (1) operating expenses of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the capital investment fund, and the Office of Inspector General; (2) expenses of the President in carrying out certain programs under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (3) global health and child survival; (4) specified development assistance; (5) international disaster assistance; (6) transition initiatives; (7) complex crises; (8) development credit authority; (9) the Economic Support Fund; (10) promotion of democracy; (11) assistance for Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia; (12) international narcotics control and law enforcement; (13) nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, and demining; (14) migration and refugee assistance; (15) the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund; (16) the Peace Corps; (17) the Millennium Challenge Corporation; (18) the Inter-American Foundation; (19) the African Development Foundation; and (20) the Department of the Treasury for international affairs technical assistance activities and debt restructuring. Makes FY2011 appropriations for: (1) international military education and training; (2) foreign military financing grants; (3) international peacekeeping operations; and (4) the Pakistan counterinsurgency capability fund. Makes FY2011 appropriations for: (1) international organizations and programs; (2) the Global Environment Facility; (3) the International Development Association; (4) the Clean Technology Fund; (5) the Strategic Climate Fund; (6) the Global Food Security Fund; (7) the Inter-American Investment Corporation; (8) the Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund; (9) the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Fund; (10) the African Development Fund; and (11) the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Makes FY2011 appropriations for: (1) the Export-Import Bank, including the Office of Inspector General, direct and guaranteed loan and insurance programs, and administrative expenses; (2) Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) credit and insurance programs, including administrative expenses, and for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans; and (3) the Trade and Development Agency. Sets forth certain limits and prohibitions on the use of appropriations for specified activities.

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3644) to direct the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish education and watershed programs which advance environmental literacy, including preparedness and adaptability for the likely impacts of climate change in coastal watershed regions, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1612) to amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the authorization of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to provide service-learning opportunities on public lands, help restore the Nation's natural, cultural, historic, archaeological, recreational, and scenic resources, train a new generation of public land managers and enthusiasts, and promote the value of public service.

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025

Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3644) to direct the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish education and watershed programs which advance environmental literacy, including preparedness and adaptability for the likely impacts of climate change in coastal watershed regions, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1612) to amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the authorization of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to provide service-learning opportunities on public lands, help restore the Nation's natural, cultural, historic, archaeological, recreational, and scenic resources, train a new generation of public land managers and enthusiasts, and promote the value of public service.

Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the pioneering of college students whose determination and nonviolent resistance led to the desegregation of lunch counters and places of public accommodation over a 5-year period.

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025

Recognizes the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Commemorates the significance and importance of SNCC and its role in organizing the national sit-in movement and the role that they played in the desegregation of U.S. society and for creating the political climate necessary to pass legislation to expand civil rights and voting rights. Encourages the people of the United States to recognize and celebrate the legal victories of the national sit-in movement that sought to eradicate segregation in U.S. society. States that the House of Representatives aspires to work with the same courage, determination, dignity, and commitment exemplified by those pioneering students who dared to challenge a segregated society by addressing modern-day inequalities and injustice.

To amend the Clean Air Act relating to greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 15 January 2025

Amends the Clean Air Act to exclude from the definition of "air pollutant" any of the following solely on the basis of its effect on global climate change: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from implementing activities relating to the inclusion of international indirect land use change in the implementation of the renewable fuel program. Excludes indirect emissions from international land use changes from the definition of lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Requires the Administrator and the Secretary of Agriculture (currently, the Administrator) to determine the aggregate quantity of GHG emissions in liefecycyle GHG emissions related to the full fuel lifecycle. Amends the Clean Air Act to redefine "renewable biomass" as: (1) materials, pre-commercial thinnings, or invasive species from certain National Forest System land and public lands that are byproducts of preventive treatments that are removed to reduce hazardous fuels, reduce or contain disease or insect infestation, or restore ecosystem health, that would not otherwise be used for higher-value products, and that are harvested in accordance with specified requirements for old-growth forests and large tree retention; or (2) any organic matter that is available on a renewable or recurring basis from nonfederal land or land belonging to an Indian or Indian tribe that is held in trust by the United States or subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States, including specified renewable plant material and waste material.

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Congress should reject any proposal for the creation of a system of global taxation and regulation.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025

Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should reject any proposal for the creation of: (1) an international system of government bailouts for the financial sector; (2) a global cap-and-trade system or other climate regulations that would punish businesses in the United States and limit the competitiveness of the United States; and (3) a global tax system that would violate U.S. sovereignty.

A bill to establish a point of order against certain climate change legislation.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025

Provides that it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any conference report or other legislation that originates in the House of Representatives, or any Senate bill or related conference report to which the House added a provision, that addresses climate change through the inclusion of a cap-and-trade program if the Senate has not considered and approved a bill addressing climate change that included such a program. Allows such provision to be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members. Requires a two-thirds vote to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised on such provision.

To prohibit the use of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to document, predict, or mitigate the climate effects of specific Federal actions.

United States · United States Congress · 2 January 2025

Provides that compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) does not require consideration of: (1) the climate change effects or greenhouse gas emissions of a proposed action and alternative actions; or (2) the relationship of climate change effects or greenhouse gas emissions to a proposed action or alternatives, including the relationship to proposal design, environmental impacts, mitigation, and adaptation measures. Prohibits the provisions of a draft, proposed, or final results of any analysis, study, mitigation measure, adaptation measure, environmental impact statement or similar analysis, design proposal, action, or alternative developed pursuant to NEPA (including regulations) relating to climate change effects or greenhouse gas emissions from being the basis for any enforceable measure or action under any other provision of law. Declares that this Act does not preempt or interfere with: (1) any authority to consider the climate change effects or greenhouse gas emissions effects of proposed legislation or regulations specifically addressing greenhouse gas emissions; or (2) requirements to consider the potential climate change effects or greenhouse gas emission effects of proposals for agency action during planning or design processes under provisions of law other than NEPA.

Expressing support for the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas and its goal to encourage collaboration and cooperation among countries to address the energy and climate change challenges facing the Western Hemisphere.

United States · United States Congress · 2 January 2025

Expresses support for the goals of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas. Encourages the efforts of the U.S. government to expand collaboration and cooperation among countries in the Western Hemisphere on issues of energy security, low carbon economic growth, and reducing energy poverty. Promotes the active participation by countries, businesses, and civil societies in the Hemisphere in this voluntary partnership.

Supporting a legally binding global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide financial assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable nations for adaptation and mitigation measures, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 January 2025

Expresses support for: (1) the Copenhagen Accord as a meaningful step toward achieving the goal of a binding global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; and (2) finance for developing countries consistent with the Accord's goals. Calls for: (1) enacting comprehensive energy and climate change legislation; and (2) allotting funding to develop the processes and organizations required to manage the disbursement of funds efficiently and transparently. Commends the High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing for its preliminary work in defining how finance for developing countries will be raised and disbursed. Encourages the international community to create a legally binding agreement to reduce GHG emissions as soon as possible.

Recognizing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on its 35th anniversary.

United States · United States Congress · 2 January 2025

Congratulates the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on its 35th anniversary. Recognizes the important contributions the Convention has made in regulating international trade in endangered species and protecting such species worldwide. Recognizes the increasing importance of the Convention in addressing multiple and compounding threats on species and ecosystems arising from over-exploitation, habitat loss, invasive species, disease, and the effects of climate change. Applauds the Convention's recent leadership in reaffirming strong protections for the African elephant, and other endangered species. Urges: (1) renewed, expanded, and accelerated commitments to the Convention by all Parties to ensure the Convention's contribution to species conservation; (2) the U.S. delegation to the Convention to utilize international cooperation to encourage other Parties to the Convention to collaborate effectively to curb excessive exploitation of species for international trade; and (3) the Convention to adopt stronger protections for the polar bear, sharks, bluefin tuna, and other endangered species at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties in 2013.

Designating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a national security interest and asset.

United States · United States Congress · 2 January 2025

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the National Aeronuatics and Space Administration (NASA) is a national security asset and interest for the United States; (2) elimination of the Constellation program (the human space flight program that was to succeed the Space Shuttle program) will present homeland security implications for cyberspace; critical infrastructure, and the U.S. intelligence community; (3) elimination of the Constellation program will compromise the effectiveness of the International Space Station (ISS); (4) continuation of the Constellation program is crucial to improving national security, climate, and research in science and medicine; and (5) the United States should maintain its funding of the Constellation program and should begin funding commercial space in five years and not sooner.

Bekannte und geförderte Forschungsvorhaben im Bereich des Geoengineering/Climate Engineering

Germany · German Bundestag · 19 July 2024

Originaltext der Frage(n):<br /> <br /> Welche Forschungsvorhaben im Bereich des Geoengineering/Climate Engineering, die von deutschen und europäischen Institutionen in der Vergangenheit ausgeführt wurden und gegenwärtig ausgeführt werden, sind der Bundesregierung bekannt, und in welchem Umfang unterstützten und unterstützen die Bundesregierung und die Europäische Union Forschung in diesem Bereich?

Lijst van vragen en antwoorden in het kader van het Ontwerpbesluit tot wijziging van het Besluit handel in emissierechten (verlenging NOx opt-out)

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Lijst van vragen en antwoorden in het kader van het Ontwerpbesluit tot wijziging van het Besluit handel in emissierechten (verlenging NOx opt-out)

Verzoek aanwezigheid minister-president bij spoeddebat over climate change

Original: Verzoek aanwezigheid minister-president bij spoeddebat over klimaatverandering

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Translated from Dutch

Verzoek aanwezigheid minister-president bij spoeddebat over climate change

Kort verslag klimaatconferentie Cancun

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Kort verslag klimaatconferentie Cancun

Ontwerpbesluit tot wijziging van het Besluit handel in emissierechten (verlenging NOx opt-out)

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Ontwerpbesluit tot wijziging van het Besluit handel in emissierechten (verlenging NOx opt-out)

Lijst van vragen en antwoorden regarding beleidsdoorlichting Internationaal Ondernemen 2004-2008 - Terugkijken Met Een Blik Vooruit

Original: Lijst van vragen en antwoorden inzake beleidsdoorlichting Internationaal Ondernemen 2004-2008 - Terugkijken Met Een Blik Vooruit

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Translated from Dutch

Lijst van vragen en antwoorden regarding beleidsdoorlichting Internationaal Ondernemen 2004-2008 - Terugkijken Met Een Blik Vooruit

Ontwerpregeling tot wijziging van de Regeling monitoring handel in emissierechten

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Ontwerpregeling tot wijziging van de Regeling monitoring handel in emissierechten

Motion Jansen on a langetermijnstrategie voor een samenhangend energie- en climate policy

Original: Motie Jansen over een langetermijnstrategie voor een samenhangend energie- en klimaatbeleid

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Translated from Dutch

Motion Jansen on a langetermijnstrategie voor een samenhangend energie- en climate policy

Motion De Mos over stoppen met het climate policy

Original: Motie De Mos over stoppen met het klimaatbeleid

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Translated from Dutch

Motion De Mos over stoppen met het climate policy

Motion Halsema c.s. on a integrale visie op de te behalen kabinetsdoelen voor milieu, natuur en klimaat

Original: Motie Halsema c.s. over een integrale visie op de te behalen kabinetsdoelen voor milieu, natuur en klimaat

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Translated from Dutch

Motion Halsema c.s. on a integrale visie op de te behalen kabinetsdoelen voor milieu, natuur en klimaat

The report ‘Juristen: “Overheid loopt aanzienlijke risico’s voor aansprakelijkheid climate change’

Original: Het bericht ‘Juristen: “Overheid loopt aanzienlijke risico’s voor aansprakelijkheid klimaatverandering’

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Translated from Dutch

The report ‘Juristen: “Overheid loopt aanzienlijke risico’s voor aansprakelijkheid climate change’

De presentatie van het boek 'De staat van het klimaat'

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

De presentatie van het boek 'De staat van het klimaat'

Beantwoording vragen commissie VROM regarding de werkwijze van het Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), eventuele problemen die daaruit voort zouden kunnen komen en mogelijke verbeteringen

Original: Beantwoording vragen commissie VROM inzake de werkwijze van het Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), eventuele problemen die daaruit voort zouden kunnen komen en mogelijke verbeteringen

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Translated from Dutch

Beantwoording vragen commissie VROM regarding de werkwijze van het Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), eventuele problemen die daaruit voort zouden kunnen komen en mogelijke verbeteringen

Uitnodiging van Stichting Spaar het Klimaat en Platform Bewoners en Duurzaam Bouwen voor werkbezoek energiebesparing bestaande bouw op 8 oktober 2010

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Uitnodiging van Stichting Spaar het Klimaat en Platform Bewoners en Duurzaam Bouwen voor werkbezoek energiebesparing bestaande bouw op 8 oktober 2010

Kabinetsresponse to rapporten on the werkwijze van het Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change en inzet IPCC

Original: Kabinetsreactie op rapporten over de werkwijze van het Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change en inzet IPCC

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Translated from Dutch

Kabinetsresponse to rapporten on the werkwijze van het Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change en inzet IPCC

Het Climate Change propagandafilmpje

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Het Climate Change propagandafilmpje

Inzet klimaatconferentie Cancun

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Inzet klimaatconferentie Cancun

Besluit van 15 november 2010 tot wijziging van het Besluit handel in emissierechten (verlenging NOx opt-out)

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Besluit van 15 november 2010 tot wijziging van het Besluit handel in emissierechten (verlenging NOx opt-out)

Antwoorden op vragen van de cie VROM over wijziging Regeling monitoring handel in emissierechten

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 19 February 2024

Antwoorden op vragen van de cie VROM over wijziging Regeling monitoring handel in emissierechten