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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6185 
To authorize the imposition of sanctions with respect to significant actions 
that exacerbate climate change, to reinforce comprehensive efforts to 
limit global average temperature rise, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 20, 2025 
Ms. ESCOBAR introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Ju-
diciary, Financial Services, Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways 
and Means, 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 
A BILL 
To authorize the imposition of sanctions with respect to 
significant actions that exacerbate climate change, to 
reinforce comprehensive efforts to limit global average 
temperature rise, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Targeting Environ-
mental and Climate Recklessness Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Climate change is imposing significant dam-
age on communities in the United States and abroad 
in the form of severe weather events, wildfires, heat 
waves, droughts, flooding, ocean acidification, and 
other threats to public health and safety. Scientists 
expect those effects to grow in frequency and inten-
sity in the coming decades, jeopardizing the jobs, 
health, and safety of the people of the United 
States. 
(2) Collectively, the international community 
needs to limit global warming to under 1.5 degrees 
Celsius above pre-industrial levels in order to avoid 
the most catastrophic effects of climate change. In 
2024, average temperatures passed the 1.5-degree 
threshold for the first time. With sustained 1.5-de-
gree warming, scientists expect the United States to 
experience a sharp rise in annual heat-related 
deaths, longer and more destructive wildfire seasons, 
more frequent and severe droughts, reduced crop 
yields, more multibillion-dollar flood disasters, in-
creased high-tide flooding in coastal areas, more 
days with unhealthy air quality, and longer tick and 
mosquito seasons, among other effects. Low-income 
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communities and communities of color will experi-
ence the worst effects. 
(3) The adverse impacts of climate change will 
increase exponentially as warming continues. Under 
the current trajectory, the world will experience 
warming that exceeds 3 degrees Celsius by the end 
of the century. At 3 degrees of warming, scientists 
expect dangerous conditions in the United States 
where outdoor work is unsafe for many months of 
the year, farmers struggle to keep livestock and 
grow crops, power grids become overloaded, water 
becomes scarce during summer months, poor air 
quality leads to widespread health problems, severe 
wildfires and droughts become more common, major 
flooding events occur on a regular basis, mosquito- 
and tick-borne illnesses spread further, and some 
coastal areas become submerged. 
(4) Climate change is also expected to pose a 
significant challenge to the international commu-
nity’s shared vision of fulfilling the United Nations 
Sustainable Development Goals. 
(5) To avert catastrophe, the United States and 
every country on Earth will need to make drastic re-
forms to global economic systems to reduce green-
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