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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 319 

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

Deal. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 24, 2023 

Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ (for herself, Mr. BOWMAN, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. CASAR, Ms. 

PINGREE, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. CHU, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, 

Mr. KHANNA, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. ROBERT GARCIA of California, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. 

VELA ́ZQUEZ, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, Mr. MFUME, Ms. BARRAGA ́N, Ms. 

NORTON, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SCHIFF, 

Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. PORTER, Mr. 

CARBAJAL, Ms. PRESSLEY, Ms. ESCOBAR, Ms. MENG, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. 

CONNOLLY, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. GARCI ́A of Illinois, Ms. BALINT, Mr. 

CICILLINE, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. DAVIS

of Illinois, Ms. HOYLE of Oregon, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. SA ́NCHEZ, Mr. 

LIEU, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. NADLER, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. GOLDMAN of New 

York, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. MAGAZINER, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. 

SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. POCAN, Ms. 

BONAMICI, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. OMAR, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. 

SWALWELL, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. BUSH, Mr. 

GARAMENDI, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. QUIGLEY, 

Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mr. PANETTA, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. FROST, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. HIGGINS of New 

York, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. CA ́RDENAS, Mr. COHEN, Mr. GREEN of Texas, 

Mr. MEEKS, Ms. WATERS, Ms. LOFGREN, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. NEGUSE, 

Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. 

KEATING, and Mr. LYNCH) submitted the following resolution; which was 

referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 

the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Education and the 

Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, the Judiciary, Ways and 

Means, and Oversight and Accountability, 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 


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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 oC’’ 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 observed 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 greater than 2 degrees Celsius beyond preindustrialized levels will cause— 

(A) mass migration from the regions most affected by climate change; 

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

economic output in the United States by the year 

2100; 

(C) wildfires that, by 2050, will annually burn 

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 less than 1.5 

degrees Celsius above preindustrialized levels to avoid the 

most severe impacts of a changing climate, which will require— 

(A) global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions 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 responsible for a disproportionate amount of greenhouse 

gas emissions, having emitted 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions through 2014, and has a high technological capacity, the United States must take a leading 

role in reducing emissions through economic transformation; 

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 mobility in the developed world before the Great Recession; 

(C) the erosion of the earning and bargaining 

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 the Federal, State, and local level; 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 average White family and the average Black family; and 

(C) a gender earnings gap that results in 

women earning approximately 80 percent as much 

as men, at the median; 

Whereas climate change, pollution, and environmental destruction have exacerbated systemic racial, regional, social, environmental, and economic injustices (referred to 

in this preamble as ‘‘systemic injustices’’) by disproportionately affecting indigenous peoples, communities of 

color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income 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 national 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 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that— 

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

4 create a Green New Deal— 

5 (A) to achieve the greenhouse gas and 

6 toxic emissions reductions needed to stay under 

7 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, through a fair 

8 and just transition for all communities and 

9 workers; 

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

11 union jobs and encourage collective bargaining 

12 agreements to ensure prosperity and economic 

13 security for all people of the United States; 


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1 (C) to invest in the infrastructure and in2 dustry of the United States to sustainably meet 

3 the challenges of the 21st century; 

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

5 States for generations to come— 

6 (i) clean air and water; 

7 (ii) climate and community resiliency; 

8 (iii) healthy food; 

9 (iv) access to nature; and 

10 (v) a sustainable environment; and 

11 (E) to promote justice and equity by stop12 ping current, preventing future, and repairing 

13 historic oppression of indigenous peoples, com14 munities of color, migrant communities, 

15 deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural 

16 communities, the poor, low-income workers, 

17 women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with 

18 disabilities, and youth (referred to in this reso19 lution as ‘‘frontline and vulnerable commu20 nities’’); 

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

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

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

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

2 New Deal mobilization’’) that will require— 

3 (A) building resiliency against climate 

4 change-related disasters, such as extreme 

5 weather, including by leveraging funding and 

6 providing investments for community-defined 

7 projects and strategies; 

8 (B) repairing and upgrading the infra9 structure in the United States, including— 

10 (i) by eliminating pollution and green11 house gas emissions as much as techno12 logically feasible; 

13 (ii) by guaranteeing universal access 

14 to clean water; 

15 (iii) by reducing the risks posed by cli16 mate impacts; and 

17 (iv) by ensuring that any infrastruc18 ture bill considered by Congress addresses 

19 climate change; 

20 (C) meeting 100 percent of the power de21 mand in the United States through clean, re22 newable, and zero-emission energy sources, in23 cluding— 

24 (i) by dramatically expanding and up25 grading renewable power sources; and 


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1 (ii) by deploying new capacity; 

2 (D) building or upgrading to energy-effi3 cient, distributed, and ‘‘smart’’ power grids and 

4 ensuring affordable access to electricity; 

5 (E) upgrading all existing buildings in the 

6 United States and building new buildings to 

7 achieve maximum energy efficiency, water effi8 ciency, safety, affordability, comfort, and dura9 bility, including through electrification; 

10 (F) spurring massive growth in clean man11 ufacturing in the United States and removing 

12 pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from 

13 manufacturing and industry as much as is tech14 nologically feasible, including by expanding re15 newable energy manufacturing and investing in 

16 existing manufacturing and industry; 

17 (G) working collaboratively with farmers 

18 and ranchers in the United States to remove 

19 pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from 

20 the agricultural sector as much as is techno21 logically feasible, including— 

22 (i) by supporting family farming; 

23 (ii) by investing in sustainable farm24 ing and land use practices that increase 

25 soil health; and 


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1 (iii) by building a more sustainable 

2 food system that ensures universal access 

3 to healthy food; 

4 (H) overhauling transportation systems in 

5 the United States to remove pollution and 

6 greenhouse gas emissions from the transpor7 tation sector as much as is technologically fea8 sible, including through investment in— 

9 (i) zero-emission vehicle and non-mo10 torized alternative modes of transportation 

11 infrastructure and manufacturing; 

12 (ii) clean, affordable, and accessible 

13 public transit; and 

14 (iii) high-speed rail; 

15 (I) mitigating and managing the long-term 

16 adverse health, economic, and other effects of 

17 pollution and climate change, including by pro18 viding funding for community-defined projects 

19 and strategies; 

20 (J) removing greenhouse gases from the 

21 atmosphere and reducing pollution by restoring 

22 natural ecosystems through proven low-tech so23 lutions that increase soil carbon storage, such 

24 as land preservation and afforestation; 


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1 (K) restoring and protecting threatened, 

2 endangered, and fragile ecosystems through lo3 cally appropriate and science-based projects 

4 that enhance biodiversity and support climate 

5 resiliency; 

6 (L) cleaning up existing hazardous waste 

7 sites and abandoned sites and ensuring eco8 nomic development and sustainability on those 

9 sites; 

10 (M) identifying other emission and pollu11 tion sources and creating solutions to remove 

12 them; and 

13 (N) promoting the international exchange 

14 of technology, expertise, products, funding, and 

15 services, with the aim of making the United 

16 States the international leader on climate action 

17 and to help other countries achieve a Green 

18 New Deal; 

19 (3) a Green New Deal must be developed 

20 through transparent and inclusive consultation, col21 laboration, and partnership with frontline and vul22 nerable communities, labor organizations, worker co23 operatives, civil society groups, academia, and busi24 nesses; and 


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

2 mobilization, a Green New Deal will require— 

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

4 ensures that the public receives appropriate 

5 ownership stakes and returns on investment, 

6 adequate capital (including through community 

7 grants, public banks, and other public financ8 ing), technical expertise, supporting policies, 

9 and other forms of assistance to communities, 

10 organizations, Federal, State, and local govern11 ment agencies, and businesses working on the 

12 Green New Deal mobilization; 

13 (B) ensuring that the Federal Government 

14 takes into account the complete environmental 

15 and social costs and impacts of emissions 

16 through— 

17 (i) existing laws; 

18 (ii) new policies and programs; and 

19 (iii) ensuring that frontline and vul20 nerable communities shall not be adversely 

21 affected; 

22 (C) providing resources, training, and 

23 high-quality education, including higher edu24 cation, to all people of the United States, with 

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1 nities, so that all people of the United States 

2 may be full and equal participants in the Green 

3 New Deal mobilization; 

4 (D) making public investments in the re5 search and development of new clean and re6 newable energy technologies and industries; 

7 (E) directing investments to spur economic 

8 development, deepen and diversify industry and 

9 business in local and regional economies, and 

10 build wealth and community ownership, while 

11 prioritizing high-quality job creation and eco12 nomic, social, and environmental benefits in 

13 frontline and vulnerable communities, and 

14 deindustrialized communities, that may other15 wise struggle with the transition away from 

16 greenhouse gas intensive industries; 

17 (F) ensuring the use of democratic and 

18 participatory processes that are inclusive of and 

19 led by frontline and vulnerable communities and 

20 workers to plan, implement, and administer the 

21 Green New Deal mobilization at the local level; 

22 (G) ensuring that the Green New Deal mo23 bilization creates high-quality union jobs that 

24 pay prevailing wages, hires local workers, offers 

25 training and advancement opportunities, and 


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1 guarantees direct replacement of lost wages, 

2 health care, retirement, and other benefits for 

3 workers affected by the transition; 

4 (H) guaranteeing a job with a family-sus5 taining wage, adequate family and medical 

6 leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to 

7 all people of the United States; 

8 (I) strengthening and protecting the right 

9 of all workers to organize, unionize, and collec10 tively bargain free of coercion, intimidation, and 

11 harassment; 

12 (J) strengthening and enforcing labor, 

13 workplace health and safety, antidiscrimination, 

14 and wage and hour standards across all employ15 ers, industries, and sectors; 

16 (K) enacting and enforcing trade rules, 

17 procurement standards, and border adjustments 

18 with strong labor and environmental protec19 tions— 

20 (i) to stop the transfer of jobs and 

21 pollution overseas; and 

22 (ii) to grow domestic manufacturing 

23 in the United States; 


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

2 oceans are protected and that eminent domain 

3 is not abused; 

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

5 consent of indigenous peoples for all decisions 

6 that affect indigenous peoples and their tradi7 tional territories, honoring all treaties and 

8 agreements with indigenous peoples, and pro9 tecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land 

10 rights of indigenous peoples; 

11 (N) ensuring a commercial environment 

12 where every businessperson is free from unfair 

13 competition and domination by domestic or 

14 international monopolies; and 

15 (O) providing all people of the United 

16 States with— 

17 (i) high-quality health care; 

18 (ii) affordable, safe, and adequate 

19 housing; 

20 (iii) economic security; and 

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

22 affordable food, and access to nature. 

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