H. RES. 109

116

CONGRESS

ESSION

H. RES.

109

Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New

Deal.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EBRUARY

7, 2019

Ms. O

CASIO

-C

ORTEZ

(for herself, Mr. H

ASTINGS

, Ms. T

LAIB

, Mr. S

ERRANO

Mrs. C

AROLYN

B. M

ALONEY

of New York, Mr. V

ARGAS

, Mr. E

SPAILLAT

Mr. L

YNCH

, Ms. V

ELA

ZQUEZ

, Mr. B

LUMENAUER

, Mr. B

RENDAN

OYLE

of Pennsylvania, Mr. C

ASTRO

of Texas, Ms. C

LARKE

of New

York, Ms. J

AYAPAL

, Mr. K

HANNA

, Mr. T

IEU

of California, Ms.

RESSLEY

, Mr. W

ELCH

, Mr. E

NGEL

, Mr. N

EGUSE

, Mr. N

ADLER

, Mr.

OVERN

, Mr. P

OCAN

, Mr. T

AKANO

, Ms. N

ORTON

, Mr. R

ASKIN

, Mr.

ONNOLLY

, Mr. L

OWENTHAL

, Ms. M

ATSUI

, Mr. T

HOMPSON

of California,

Mr. L

EVIN

of California, Ms. P

INGREE

, Mr. Q

UIGLEY

, Mr. H

UFFMAN

Mrs. W

ATSON

OLEMAN

, Mr. G

ARCI

of Illinois, Mr. H

IGGINS

of New

York, Ms. H

AALAND

, Ms. M

ENG

, Mr. C

ARBAJAL

, Mr. C

ICILLINE

, Mr.

OHEN

, Ms. C

LARK

of Massachusetts, Ms. J

UDY

of California, Ms.

UCARSEL

-P

OWELL

, Mr. M

OULTON

, Mr. G

RIJALVA

, Mr. M

EEKS

, Mr.

ABLAN

, Ms. L

of California, Ms. B

ONAMICI

, Mr. S

EAN

ATRICK

ALONEY

of New York, Ms. S

CHAKOWSKY

, Ms. D

AURO

, Mr. L

EVIN

of Michigan, Ms. M

OLLUM

, Mr. D

AULNIER

, Mr. C

OURTNEY

, Mr.

ARSON

of Connecticut, Ms. E

SCOBAR

, Mr. S

CHIFF

, Mr. K

EATING

, Mr.

AZIO

, Ms. E

SHOO

, Mrs. T

RAHAN

, Mr. G

OMEZ

, Mr. K

ENNEDY

, and

Ms. W

ATERS

) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to

the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Commit-

tees on Science, Space, and Technology, Education and Labor, Transpor-

tation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Foreign Af-

fairs, Financial Services, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Oversight

and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker,

in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-

diction of the committee concerned

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RESOLUTION

Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create

a Green New Deal.

Whereas the October 2018 report entitled ‘‘Special Report on

Global Warming of 1.5

C’’ by the Intergovernmental

Panel on Climate Change and the November 2018

Fourth National Climate Assessment report found that—

(1) human activity is the dominant cause of ob-

served climate change over the past century;

(2) a changing climate is causing sea levels to rise

and an increase in wildfires, severe storms, droughts, and

other extreme weather events that threaten human life,

healthy communities, and critical infrastructure;

(3) global warming at or above 2 degrees Celsius be-

yond preindustrialized levels will cause—

(A) mass migration from the regions most af-

fected by climate change;

(B) more than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual

economic output in the United States by the year

2100;

at least twice as much forest area in the western

United States than was typically burned by wildfires

in the years preceding 2019;

(D) a loss of more than 99 percent of all coral

reefs on Earth;

(E) more than 350,000,000 more people to be

exposed globally to deadly heat stress by 2050; and

(F) a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of

public infrastructure and coastal real estate in the

United States; and

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(4) global temperatures must be kept below 1.5 de-

grees Celsius above preindustrialized levels to avoid the

most severe impacts of a changing climate, which will re-

quire—

(A) global reductions in greenhouse gas emis-

sions from human sources of 40 to 60 percent from

2010 levels by 2030; and

(B) net-zero global emissions by 2050;

Whereas, because the United States has historically been re-

sponsible for a disproportionate amount of greenhouse

gas emissions, having emitted 20 percent of global green-

house gas emissions through 2014, and has a high tech-

nological capacity, the United States must take a leading

role in reducing emissions through economic trans-

formation;

Whereas the United States is currently experiencing several

related crises, with—

(1) life expectancy declining while basic needs, such

as clean air, clean water, healthy food, and adequate

health care, housing, transportation, and education, are

inaccessible to a significant portion of the United States

population;

(2) a 4-decade trend of wage stagnation,

deindustrialization, and antilabor policies that has led

to—

(A) hourly wages overall stagnating since the

1970s despite increased worker productivity;

(B) the third-worst level of socioeconomic mo-

bility in the developed world before the Great Reces-

sion;

power of workers in the United States; and

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(D) inadequate resources for public sector

workers to confront the challenges of climate change

at local, State, and Federal levels; and

(3) the greatest income inequality since the 1920s,

with—

(A) the top 1 percent of earners accruing 91

percent of gains in the first few years of economic

recovery after the Great Recession;

(B) a large racial wealth divide amounting to a

difference of 20 times more wealth between the aver-

age white family and the average black family; and

women earning approximately 80 percent as much

as men, at the median;

Whereas climate change, pollution, and environmental de-

struction have exacerbated systemic racial, regional, so-

cial, environmental, and economic injustices (referred to

in this preamble as ‘‘systemic injustices’’) by dispropor-

tionately affecting indigenous peoples, communities of

color, migrant communities, deindustrialized commu-

nities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-in-

come workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people

with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this preamble

as ‘‘frontline and vulnerable communities’’);

Whereas, climate change constitutes a direct threat to the na-

tional security of the United States—

(1) by impacting the economic, environmental, and

social stability of countries and communities around the

world; and

(2) by acting as a threat multiplier;

Whereas the Federal Government-led mobilizations during

World War II and the New Deal created the greatest

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middle class that the United States has ever seen, but

many members of frontline and vulnerable communities

were excluded from many of the economic and societal

benefits of those mobilizations; and

Whereas the House of Representatives recognizes that a new

national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on

a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal

era is a historic opportunity—

(1) to create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the

United States;

(2) to provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and

economic security for all people of the United States; and

(3) to counteract systemic injustices: Now, therefore,

be it

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-1

resentatives that— 2

(1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to 3

create a Green New Deal— 4

(A) to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas 5

emissions through a fair and just transition for 6

all communities and workers; 7

(B) to create millions of good, high-wage 8

jobs and ensure prosperity and economic secu-9

rity for all people of the United States; 10

dustry of the United States to sustainably meet 12

the challenges of the 21st century; 13

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(D) to secure for all people of the United 1

States for generations to come— 2

(i) clean air and water; 3

(ii) climate and community resiliency; 4

(iii) healthy food; 5

(iv) access to nature; and 6

(v) a sustainable environment; and 7

(E) to promote justice and equity by stop-8

ping current, preventing future, and repairing 9

historic oppression of indigenous peoples, com-10

munities of color, migrant communities, 11

deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural 12

communities, the poor, low-income workers, 13

women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with 14

disabilities, and youth (referred to in this reso-15

lution as ‘‘frontline and vulnerable commu-16

nities’’); 17

(2) the goals described in subparagraphs (A) 18

through (E) of paragraph (1) (referred to in this 19

resolution as the ‘‘Green New Deal goals’’) should 20

be accomplished through a 10-year national mobili-21

zation (referred to in this resolution as the ‘‘Green 22

New Deal mobilization’’) that will require the fol-23

lowing goals and projects— 24

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(A) building resiliency against climate 1

change-related disasters, such as extreme 2

weather, including by leveraging funding and 3

providing investments for community-defined 4

projects and strategies; 5

(B) repairing and upgrading the infra-6

structure in the United States, including— 7

(i) by eliminating pollution and green-8

house gas emissions as much as techno-9

logically feasible; 10

(ii) by guaranteeing universal access 11

to clean water; 12

(iii) by reducing the risks posed by cli-13

mate impacts; and 14

(iv) by ensuring that any infrastruc-15

ture bill considered by Congress addresses 16

climate change; 17

mand in the United States through clean, re-19

newable, and zero-emission energy sources, in-20

cluding— 21

(i) by dramatically expanding and up-22

grading renewable power sources; and 23

(ii) by deploying new capacity; 24

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(D) building or upgrading to energy-effi-1

cient, distributed, and ‘‘smart’’ power grids, 2

and ensuring affordable access to electricity; 3

(E) upgrading all existing buildings in the 4

United States and building new buildings to 5

achieve maximum energy efficiency, water effi-6

ciency, safety, affordability, comfort, and dura-7

bility, including through electrification; 8

(F) spurring massive growth in clean man-9

ufacturing in the United States and removing 10

pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from 11

manufacturing and industry as much as is tech-12

nologically feasible, including by expanding re-13

newable energy manufacturing and investing in 14

existing manufacturing and industry; 15

(G) working collaboratively with farmers 16

and ranchers in the United States to remove 17

pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from 18

the agricultural sector as much as is techno-19

logically feasible, including— 20

(i) by supporting family farming; 21

(ii) by investing in sustainable farm-22

ing and land use practices that increase 23

soil health; and 24

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(iii) by building a more sustainable 1

food system that ensures universal access 2

to healthy food; 3

(H) overhauling transportation systems in 4

the United States to remove pollution and 5

greenhouse gas emissions from the transpor-6

tation sector as much as is technologically fea-7

sible, including through investment in— 8

(i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure 9

and manufacturing; 10

(ii) clean, affordable, and accessible 11

public transit; and 12

(iii) high-speed rail; 13

(I) mitigating and managing the long-term 14

adverse health, economic, and other effects of 15

pollution and climate change, including by pro-16

viding funding for community-defined projects 17

and strategies; 18

(J) removing greenhouse gases from the 19

atmosphere and reducing pollution by restoring 20

natural ecosystems through proven low-tech so-21

lutions that increase soil carbon storage, such 22

as land preservation and afforestation; 23

(K) restoring and protecting threatened, 24

endangered, and fragile ecosystems through lo-25

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cally appropriate and science-based projects 1

that enhance biodiversity and support climate 2

resiliency; 3

(L) cleaning up existing hazardous waste 4

and abandoned sites, ensuring economic devel-5

opment and sustainability on those sites; 6

(M) identifying other emission and pollu-7

tion sources and creating solutions to remove 8

them; and 9

(N) promoting the international exchange 10

of technology, expertise, products, funding, and 11

services, with the aim of making the United 12

States the international leader on climate ac-13

tion, and to help other countries achieve a 14

Green New Deal; 15

(3) a Green New Deal must be developed 16

through transparent and inclusive consultation, col-17

laboration, and partnership with frontline and vul-18

nerable communities, labor unions, worker coopera-19

tives, civil society groups, academia, and businesses; 20

and 21

(4) to achieve the Green New Deal goals and 22

mobilization, a Green New Deal will require the fol-23

lowing goals and projects— 24

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(A) providing and leveraging, in a way that 1

ensures that the public receives appropriate 2

ownership stakes and returns on investment, 3

adequate capital (including through community 4

grants, public banks, and other public financ-5

ing), technical expertise, supporting policies, 6

and other forms of assistance to communities, 7

organizations, Federal, State, and local govern-8

ment agencies, and businesses working on the 9

Green New Deal mobilization; 10

(B) ensuring that the Federal Government 11

takes into account the complete environmental 12

and social costs and impacts of emissions 13

through— 14

(i) existing laws; 15

(ii) new policies and programs; and 16

(iii) ensuring that frontline and vul-17

nerable communities shall not be adversely 18

affected; 19

high-quality education, including higher edu-21

cation, to all people of the United States, with 22

a focus on frontline and vulnerable commu-23

nities, so that all people of the United States 24

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may be full and equal participants in the Green 1

New Deal mobilization; 2

(D) making public investments in the re-3

search and development of new clean and re-4

newable energy technologies and industries; 5

(E) directing investments to spur economic 6

development, deepen and diversify industry and 7

business in local and regional economies, and 8

build wealth and community ownership, while 9

prioritizing high-quality job creation and eco-10

nomic, social, and environmental benefits in 11

frontline and vulnerable communities, and 12

deindustrialized communities, that may other-13

wise struggle with the transition away from 14

greenhouse gas intensive industries; 15

(F) ensuring the use of democratic and 16

participatory processes that are inclusive of and 17

led by frontline and vulnerable communities and 18

workers to plan, implement, and administer the 19

Green New Deal mobilization at the local level; 20

(G) ensuring that the Green New Deal mo-21

bilization creates high-quality union jobs that 22

pay prevailing wages, hires local workers, offers 23

training and advancement opportunities, and 24

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guarantees wage and benefit parity for workers 1

affected by the transition; 2

(H) guaranteeing a job with a family-sus-3

taining wage, adequate family and medical 4

leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to 5

all people of the United States; 6

(I) strengthening and protecting the right 7

of all workers to organize, unionize, and collec-8

tively bargain free of coercion, intimidation, and 9

harassment; 10

(J) strengthening and enforcing labor, 11

workplace health and safety, antidiscrimination, 12

and wage and hour standards across all employ-13

ers, industries, and sectors; 14

(K) enacting and enforcing trade rules, 15

procurement standards, and border adjustments 16

with strong labor and environmental protec-17

tions— 18

(i) to stop the transfer of jobs and 19

pollution overseas; and 20

(ii) to grow domestic manufacturing 21

in the United States; 22

(L) ensuring that public lands, waters, and 23

oceans are protected and that eminent domain 24

is not abused; 25

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(M) obtaining the free, prior, and informed 1

consent of indigenous peoples for all decisions 2

that affect indigenous peoples and their tradi-3

tional territories, honoring all treaties and 4

agreements with indigenous peoples, and pro-5

tecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land 6

rights of indigenous peoples; 7

(N) ensuring a commercial environment 8

where every businessperson is free from unfair 9

competition and domination by domestic or 10

international monopolies; and 11

(O) providing all people of the United 12

States with— 13

(i) high-quality health care; 14

(ii) affordable, safe, and adequate 15

housing; 16

(iii) economic security; and 17

(iv) clean water, clean air, healthy and 18

affordable food, and access to nature. 19

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