S. Con. Res. 9 (Introduced in Senate) — Expressing the sense of Congress that there is a climate emergency which demands a massive-scale mobilization to halt, reverse, and address its consequences and causes.

That it is the sense of Congress that—

(1)

climate change caused by human activities, which increase emissions of greenhouse gases, constitutes a climate emergency that—

(A)

severely and urgently impacts the economic and social well-being, health, safety, and national security of the United States; and

(B)

demands that the President wield both existing authorities and emergency powers to ensure a national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization of the resources and labor of the United States at a massive scale to mitigate and prepare for the consequences of the climate emergency for current and future generations; and

(2)

nothing in this concurrent resolution constitutes a declaration of a national emergency for the purposes of any Act of Congress authorizing the exercise, during the period of a national emergency or other type of declared emergency, of any special or extraordinary power.

Expressing the sense of Congress that there is a climate emergency which demands a massive-scale mobilization to halt, reverse, and address its consequences and causes.

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