HR6615Referred to Committee
Climate Justice Grants Act
Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-12-11
Introduced
0
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Nanette Diaz Barragán
Democrat · CA · Representative
Votes with party: 98.7% (541 recorded votes)
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Cosponsors (0)
Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.
No cosponsors on record. Bills can pass without cosponsors — this often means the sponsor introduced the bill alone, either because it's a messaging bill, a chairman's mark, or simply early in the legislative cycle.
Latest Action
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Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
2025-12-11
Source: Congress.gov
Committee Activity
Currently in
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-12-11
- House Committee on Energy and CommerceReferred To · 2025-12-11
Previously
- Natural Resources CommitteeReferred To · 2025-12-11
- Energy and Commerce CommitteeReferred To · 2025-12-11
Plain-English Summary
Climate Justice Grants Act This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program to assist tribal governments, local governments, nonprofits, or community-based organizations in addressing issues relating to climate justice and carrying out activities that address climate justice concerns of environmental justice communities. Environmental justice communities refers to any population of color, community of color, indigenous community, or low-income community that experiences a disproportionate burden of the negative human health and environmental impacts of pollution or other environmental hazards.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
Subjects
Environmental Protection
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