Title: CLIMATE Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Congressional Leadership In Mitigating Administration Threats to the Earth Act or the CLIMATE Act
This bill nullifies the Executive Order entitled "Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth" that was released on March 28, 2017. No federal funds may be used to implement or enforce the order. The bill takes effect on March 28, 2017.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1812 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1812

    To provide that the Executive order entitled ``Promoting Energy 
  Independence and Economic Growth'' (March 28, 2017), shall have no 
 force or effect, to prohibit the use of Federal funds to enforce the 
                Executive order, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2017

   Mr. Schneider (for himself, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Crist, Mr. 
Beyer, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Delaney, Mr. 
Garamendi, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Lee, 
 Mr. Lipinski, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. McNerney, Mrs. 
 Murphy of Florida, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Peters, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Polis, Mr. 
  Perlmutter, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. 
Suozzi, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Clay, 
Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Mr. Price of North Carolina, 
Mr. Hastings, and Mr. Cartwright) introduced the following bill; which 
 was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition 
 to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, the Judiciary, 
 and Natural Resources, 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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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide that the Executive order entitled ``Promoting Energy 
  Independence and Economic Growth'' (March 28, 2017), shall have no 
 force or effect, to prohibit the use of Federal funds to enforce the 
                Executive order, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Congressional Leadership In 
Mitigating Administration Threats to the Earth Act'' or the ``CLIMATE 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXECUTIVE ORDER TO HAVE NO FORCE OR EFFECT.

    Beginning on March 28, 2017, the Executive order entitled 
``Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth'' (March 28, 2017), 
is null and void, shall have no force or effect, and may not be 
implemented, administered, or enforced.

SEC. 3. NO FUNDS AVAILABLE.

    No Federal funds may be used to implement, administer, or enforce 
(including through the issuance of any regulations) the Executive order 
entitled ``Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth'' (March 
28, 2017).

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect on March 28, 2017.
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