The ambitious climate change proposal—named after President Franklin Roosevelt’s series of job and economic initiatives during the Great Depression known as the New Deal—calls for an overhaul of American energy consumption.
House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a new climate change initiative dubbed the Climate Action Now Act, legislation that would focus primarily on the United States recommitting to the standards of the Paris Climate Agreement, which President Donald Trump announced the country would withdraw from.
“Our select committee is going to be putting together the package of policy proposals that will be largely in the spirit of the New Green Deal,” Representative Kathy Castor, chair of the Climate Change Select Committee, told Newsweek. “Particularly, the transition to clean energy, adaptation, mitigation—the problem is we’ve got to act with urgency, and this is the first step to doing that.
To achieve those goals the bill would require “upgrading all existing buildings in the United States” and constructing new buildings to be as energy efficient as possible. It would also invest in renewable energies and farming while removing pollution from the manufacturing industry “as much as is technologically feasible.”
Climate Action Now ActThis initiative, according to a draft version made public, will focus on recommitting the country to the previously agreed upon Paris Climate Agreement, which Trump announced his intention to withdraw the U.S. from in 2017. The U.S. has not yet officially withdrawn from the international deal because, as the agreement explains, a country may not do so until three years after signing on to it.
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