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H.Con.Res.44

Recognizing a health and safety emergency disproportionately affecting the fundamental rights of children due to the Trump administration's directives that unleash fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, while suppressing climate change science.

Introduced·7/16/25
Introduced
Introduced in House · July 17, 2025

H. CON. RES. 44

July 16, 2025

Ms. Schakowsky (for herself, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mr. Thanedar, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Ansari, Ms. Norton, Mr. Carson, Ms. Velázquez, Ms. Barragán, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Titus, Mr. Frost, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. Simon, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Min, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Chu, Ms. Dexter, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Takano, Mr. Amo, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Mrs. Foushee, Ms. Balint, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Adams, Mr. Torres of New York, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Soto, Mr. Lynch, Mrs. McIver, Ms. Hoyle of Oregon, and Mrs. Hayes) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Recognizing a health and safety emergency disproportionately affecting the fundamental rights of children due to the Trump administration’s directives that unleash fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, while suppressing climate change science.

  1. (1) leadership in the United States urgently needs—
    1. (A) to recognize and address the current health and safety emergency faced by children that is well documented and supported by the scientific community;
    2. (B) to express their opposition to President Trump’s Executive orders that unleash fossil fuels, increase greenhouse gas emissions, block a vital clean, renewable energy transition, and chill climate change-related speech; and
    3. (C) to demand the Trump administration—
      1. (i) comply with congressional statutory mandates and reverse ongoing implementation of the Executive orders that increase fossil fuel production, block clean, renewable energy and electric vehicles, and weaken protections for children;
      2. (ii) restore the Environmental Protection Agency to its core mission approved by Congress; and
      3. (iii) restore climate change resources and climate science data on Federal websites;
  2. (2) Congress and the Federal Government, including the Trump administration—
    1. (A) have a duty to constrain any government actions that harm young people’s lives and deprive them of their fundamental constitutional rights only to those actions strictly necessary to achieve a compelling government interest; and
    2. (B) should institute an intergenerational system of governing that ensures equal treatment of children by no longer discounting the lives of children and future generations; and
  3. (3) all energy and climate laws enacted by Congress and Executive orders, regulations, and practices issued by the executive branch with long-term impacts on the climate system and human communities should be consistent with—
    1. (A) protecting children’s fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property, which include rights to the pursuit of happiness, dignity, personal security, family autonomy, bodily integrity, the ability to practice cultural and religious traditions, and a stable climate system necessary for children to exercise these rights; and
    2. (B) putting the United States on a trajectory consistent with reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide to less than 350 parts per million by 2,100.