IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 109 
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New 
Deal. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 7, 2019 
Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ (for herself, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. SERRANO, 
Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. ESPAILLAT, 
Mr. LYNCH, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. BRENDAN F. 
BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Ms. CLARKE of New 
York, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Ms. 
PRESSLEY, Mr. WELCH, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. NEGUSE, Mr. NADLER, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mr. POCAN, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. NORTON, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. 
CONNOLLY, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. THOMPSON of California, 
Mr. LEVIN of California, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. HUFFMAN, 
Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. HIGGINS of New 
York, Ms. HAALAND, Ms. MENG, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. 
COHEN, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Ms. 
MUCARSEL-POWELL, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. 
SABLAN, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. SEAN PATRICK 
MALONEY of New York, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. LEVIN 
of Michigan, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. 
LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. ESCOBAR, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. KEATING, Mr. 
DEFAZIO, Ms. ESHOO, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. KENNEDY, and 
Ms. WATERS) 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 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 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; 
(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 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; 
(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 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 
(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 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-
resentatives that— 
(1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to 
create a Green New Deal— 
(A) to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas 
emissions through a fair and just transition for 
all communities and workers; 
(B) to create millions of good, high-wage 
jobs and ensure prosperity and economic secu-
rity for all people of the United States; 
(C) to invest in the infrastructure and in-
dustry of the United States to sustainably meet 
the challenges of the 21st century; 
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(D) to secure for all people of the United 
States for generations to come— 
(i) clean air and water; 
(ii) climate and community resiliency; 
(iii) healthy food; 
(iv) access to nature; and 
(v) a sustainable environment; and 
(E) to promote justice and equity by stop-
ping current, preventing future, and repairing 
historic oppression of indigenous peoples, com-
munities 
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 reso-
lution as ‘‘frontline and vulnerable commu-
nities’’); 
(2) the goals described in subparagraphs (A) 
through (E) of paragraph (1) (referred to in this 
resolution as the ‘‘Green New Deal goals’’) should 
be accomplished through a 10-year national mobili-
zation (referred to in this resolution as the ‘‘Green 
New Deal mobilization’’) that will require the fol-
lowing goals and projects— 
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(A) building resiliency against climate 
change-related disasters, such as extreme 
weather, including by leveraging funding and 
providing investments for community-defined 
projects and strategies; 
(B) repairing and upgrading the infra-
structure in the United States, including— 
(i) by eliminating pollution and green-
house gas emissions as much as techno-
logically feasible; 
(ii) by guaranteeing universal access 
to clean water; 
(iii) by reducing the risks posed by cli-
mate impacts; and 
(iv) by ensuring that any infrastruc-
ture bill considered by Congress addresses 
climate change; 
(C) meeting 100 percent of the power de-
mand in the United States through clean, re-
newable, and zero-emission energy sources, in-
cluding— 
(i) by dramatically expanding and up-
grading renewable power sources; and 
(ii) by deploying new capacity; 
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(D) building or upgrading to energy-effi-
cient, distributed, and ‘‘smart’’ power grids, 
and ensuring affordable access to electricity; 
(E) upgrading all existing buildings in the 
United States and building new buildings to 
achieve maximum energy efficiency, water effi-
ciency, safety, affordability, comfort, and dura-
bility, including through electrification; 
(F) spurring massive growth in clean man-
ufacturing in the United States and removing 
pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from 
manufacturing and industry as much as is tech-
nologically feasible, including by expanding re-
newable energy manufacturing and investing in 
existing manufacturing and industry; 
(G) working collaboratively with farmers 
and ranchers in the United States to remove 
pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from 
the agricultural sector as much as is techno-
logically feasible, including— 
(i) by supporting family farming; 
(ii) by investing in sustainable farm-
ing and land use practices that increase 
soil health; and 
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(iii) by building a more sustainable 
food system that ensures universal access 
to healthy food; 
(H) overhauling transportation systems in 
the United States to remove pollution and 
greenhouse gas emissions from the transpor-
tation sector as much as is technologically fea-
sible, including through investment in— 
(i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure 
and manufacturing; 
(ii) clean, affordable, and accessible 
public transit; and 
(iii) high-speed rail; 
(I) mitigating and managing the long-term 
adverse health, economic, and other effects of 
pollution and climate change, including by pro-
viding funding for community-defined projects 
and strategies; 
(J) removing greenhouse gases from the 
atmosphere and reducing pollution by restoring 
natural ecosystems through proven low-tech so-
lutions that increase soil carbon storage, such 
as land preservation and afforestation; 
(K) restoring and protecting threatened, 
endangered, and fragile ecosystems through lo-
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cally appropriate and science-based projects 
that enhance biodiversity and support climate 
resiliency; 
(L) cleaning up existing hazardous waste 
and abandoned sites, ensuring economic devel-
opment and sustainability on those sites; 
(M) identifying other emission and pollu-
tion sources and creating solutions to remove 
them; and 
(N) promoting the international exchange 
of technology, expertise, products, funding, and 
services, with the aim of making the United 
States the international leader on climate ac-
tion, and to help other countries achieve a 
Green New Deal; 
(3) a Green New Deal must be developed 
through transparent and inclusive consultation, col-
laboration, and partnership with frontline and vul-
nerable communities, labor unions, worker coopera-
tives, civil society groups, academia, and businesses; 
and 
(4) to achieve the Green New Deal goals and 
mobilization, a Green New Deal will require the fol-
lowing goals and projects— 
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(A) providing and leveraging, in a way that 
ensures that the public receives appropriate 
ownership stakes and returns on investment, 
adequate capital (including through community 
grants, public banks, and other public financ-
ing), technical expertise, supporting policies, 
and other forms of assistance to communities, 
organizations, Federal, State, and local govern-
ment agencies, and businesses working on the 
Green New Deal mobilization; 
(B) ensuring that the Federal Government 
takes into account the complete environmental 
and social costs and impacts of emissions 
through— 
(i) existing laws; 
(ii) new policies and programs; and 
(iii) ensuring that frontline and vul-
nerable communities shall not be adversely 
affected; 
(C) providing resources, training, and 
high-quality education, including higher edu-
cation, to all people of the United States, with 
a focus on frontline and vulnerable commu-
nities, so that all people of the United States 
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may be full and equal participants in the Green 
New Deal mobilization; 
(D) making public investments in the re-
search and development of new clean and re-
newable energy technologies and industries; 
(E) directing investments to spur economic 
development, deepen and diversify industry and 
business in local and regional economies, and 
build wealth and community ownership, while 
prioritizing high-quality job creation and eco-
nomic, social, and environmental benefits in 
frontline and vulnerable communities, and 
deindustrialized communities, that may other-
wise struggle with the transition away from 
greenhouse gas intensive industries; 
(F) ensuring the use of democratic and 
participatory processes that are inclusive of and 
led by frontline and vulnerable communities and 
workers to plan, implement, and administer the 
Green New Deal mobilization at the local level; 
(G) ensuring that the Green New Deal mo-
bilization creates high-quality union jobs that 
pay prevailing wages, hires local workers, offers 
training and advancement opportunities, and 
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guarantees wage and benefit parity for workers 
affected by the transition; 
(H) guaranteeing a job with a family-sus-
taining wage, adequate family and medical 
leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to 
all people of the United States; 
(I) strengthening and protecting the right 
of all workers to organize, unionize, and collec-
tively bargain free of coercion, intimidation, and 
harassment; 
(J) strengthening and enforcing labor, 
workplace health and safety, antidiscrimination, 
and wage and hour standards across all employ-
ers, industries, and sectors; 
(K) enacting and enforcing trade rules, 
procurement standards, and border adjustments 
with strong labor and environmental protec-
tions— 
(i) to stop the transfer of jobs and 
pollution overseas; and 
(ii) to grow domestic manufacturing 
in the United States; 
(L) ensuring that public lands, waters, and 
oceans are protected and that eminent domain 
is not abused; 
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(M) obtaining the free, prior, and informed 
consent of indigenous peoples for all decisions 
that affect indigenous peoples and their tradi-
tional territories, honoring all treaties and 
agreements with indigenous peoples, and pro-
tecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land 
rights of indigenous peoples; 
(N) ensuring a commercial environment 
where every businessperson is free from unfair 
competition and domination by domestic or 
international monopolies; and 
(O) providing all people of the United 
States with— 
(i) high-quality health care; 
(ii) affordable, safe, and adequate 
housing; 
(iii) economic security; and 
(iv) clean water, clean air, healthy and 
affordable food, and access to nature. 
Æ 
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