IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 288 
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green Real 
Deal. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 3, 2019 
Mr. GAETZ (for himself and Mr. ROONEY of Florida) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Ways 
and Means, the Judiciary, Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed 
Services, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create 
a Green Real Deal. 
Whereas United States greenhouse gas emissions have de-
creased approximately 10 percent since 2005; 
Whereas the United States leads the world in gross emissions 
reductions; 
Whereas a clean energy economy is driven by a national com-
mitment to innovation, competitive markets, and the de-
ployment of advanced energy technologies, and the suc-
cess of this approach is visible in the United States 
where— 
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(1) energy productivity has grown 14 percent since 
2009; 
(2) the total production of natural gas has increased 
by 56 percent since 2009; and 
(3) the installed wind and solar power capacity has 
quadrupled since 2009; 
Whereas energy prices in the United States are historically 
low, and energy costs make up less than 5 percent of 
total United States personal consumption expenses; 
Whereas, in 2018, United States businesses set records by— 
(1) tripling corporate procurement of clean energy; 
(2) increasing liquified natural gas exports by 135 
percent; and 
(3) increasing sales of electric vehicles by 80 per-
cent; 
Whereas the Department of Defense, on an ongoing basis 
and at the direction of Congress, has identified risks to 
military assets, bases, and national security from climate 
change, and has developed opportunities to reduce green-
house gas emissions and improve national security; 
Whereas 13 Federal agencies, at the direction of Congress 
through the Global Change Research Act of 1990, have 
found that— 
(1) climate change creates new risks and exacerbates 
existing vulnerabilities in communities across the United 
States, and that climate change threatens human health 
and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic 
growth; 
(2) communities, governments, and businesses are 
working to reduce risks from, and costs associated with, 
climate change, by taking action to lower greenhouse gas 
emissions and implement adaptation strategies; and 
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(3) while climate change mitigation and adaptation 
efforts have expanded substantially in the last 4 years, 
such efforts do not yet approach the scale considered nec-
essary to avoid substantial damages to the economy, envi-
ronment, and human health over the coming decades; and 
Whereas the House of Representatives recognizes unprece-
dented demand for job-creating, American-made, clean 
energy, and the need to empower individuals and busi-
nesses to come together in the marketplace, as a historic 
opportunity to— 
(1) create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the 
United States; 
(2) enable equal opportunity to achieve unprece-
dented levels of prosperity and economic security for all 
people of the United States; and 
(3) secure the position of the United States as a 
global environmental leader: 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 Real Deal— 
(A) to achieve robust, economy-wide green-
house gas emissions reductions; 
(B) to create more clean energy options 
through a commitment to innovation; 
(C) to position the United States as a 
global leader in clean energy, driving global in-
vestment in American-made clean energy tech-
nologies; 
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(D) to reduce and modernize regulations to 
speed deployment of clean energy technologies 
nationwide and worldwide, and to affirm that 
the Government should not pick winners and 
losers; 
(E) to empower individuals, States, and 
the marketplace to invest in and implement 
clean energy technologies; and 
(F) to ensure that the infrastructure, com-
munities, and military of the United States are 
resilient and adapting to long-term environ-
mental, climate, and social change; and 
(2) the goals described in subparagraphs (A) 
through (F) of paragraph (1) (referred to in this 
resolution as the ‘‘Green Real Deal goals’’) should 
be accomplished by— 
(A) investing in carbon capture storage 
and carbon capture and use, and otherwise re-
ducing emissions or achieving net-zero emis-
sions from energy produced from fossil fuels; 
(B) investing in next-generation low- and 
zero-emission energy sources, including renew-
able energy and nuclear energy, especially small 
modular reactors; 
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(C) promoting the widespread use and de-
ployment of next-generation recycling and waste 
management technology, such as plastics-to-fuel 
initiatives, and transforming postconsumer re-
cycled plastic into new materials such as as-
phalt; 
(D) modernizing the electric grid through 
strategic investments in transmission, distribu-
tion, and storage; 
(E) allowing fair and equal access to en-
ergy development on Federal lands; 
(F) modernizing the implementation of the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) to drive investment in 
clean 
energy 
infrastructure, 
especially 
multistate transmission and offshore wind; 
(G) eliminating regulations that hinder or 
slow the deployment of advanced energy, and 
creating a regulatory climate to encourage the 
use of clean, renewable, and innovative energy 
and recycling technologies; 
(H) modernizing regulations governing hy-
dropower development; 
(I) establishing a voluntary framework for 
reporting and tracking carbon emissions, renew-
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