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Climate Change
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14
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U.S. Congress

Context

The U.S. Congress module includes official blogs and social media accounts of United States senators and representatives.

The Climate Change narrative has been driven by 42 members in the U.S. Congress module across 51 unique narratives in the last 14 days. The most active keywords associated with the Climate Change narrative are climate change, natural gas, fossil fuels, and inflation reduction.

Activity This chart shows the publication volume of narrative items by the members in the module "U.S. Congress".

Key Insights Key Insights are generated by Kudzu's deep-layered neural network, which summarizes selected articles that are highly relevant to the brief's topics.

  • Incorporating the impact of trees and forests during the 2005-2020 period showed an increase in the Countys overall net emission reductions from 30 percent to 32 percent. Carbon emissions from supply chains and personal consumption are not included in the scope of COGs inventories at this time.
  • Future COPs should require companies to disclose climate-related lobbying, campaign contributions, and funding of trade associations and organizations active on energy and climate issues. We ask you to consult with us on the steps you are taking to ensure UAE delivers a COP that is ambitious and substantive.
  • Cobb's research focuses on unraveling the mysteries of El Nio and La Nia events. She has sailed on numerous oceanographic cruises and caving expeditions in the Borneo rainforests. Cobb has received numerous awards for her research, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2007.
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Narrative Items by Member

Members by: This chart shows the relative amplification volume of members in this module by their type.

  • Caucus
  • Chamber
  • Coalition
  • Committee
  • Party
  • Subcommittee

Keyword Dynamics Keyword Dynamics shows the volume by day of the most frequently-used keywords among all narrative items by all members in this module. Roll over the graph to see each keyword's cumulative volume on a particular day.

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Member Dynamics Member Dynamics shows the combined publication volume and, if that member has otherwise amplified any narrative items, those volumes, over time. Roll over a member's stream to see its volume on a particular day, along with the keywords used most frequently in the member's narrative items on that day.

Most Active Members

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

Budget Cmte

Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety SC

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Constitution SC

...

Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism SC

Democrat

Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure SC

Environment & Public Works Cmte

Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights SC

Finance Cmte

Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water SC

Health Care SC

International Narcotics Control

Privacy, Technology, and the Law SC

Rhode Island

Senate

Senate Budget Committee

Senate Judiciary Committee

Small Business Cmte

Taxation & IRS Oversight SC

Transportation & Infrastructure Cmte

US Caucus on International Narcotics Control

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has talked about climate change, oil and gas, and climate crisis more than any other topics.
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has amplified 7 articles in this period. Here are the most recent 3:
Crack down on fossil fuel lobbyists at COP climate talks, global groups...
  news.sky.com 
fossil fuel · united nations · fossil fuels
Global campaigners urge the United Nations to crack down on fossil fuel lobbyists at COP climate talks. They say oil company representatives should "not be allowed to unduly influence climate policymaking" Signatories include Greenpeace, Oxfam, Tearfund and Friends of the Earth. The registration of 630 delegates with links to fossil fuel companies to attend the last such talks sparked backlash.
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Sen. Whitehouse, Rep. Huffman Urge Climate Envoy Kerry to Oppose Oil Executive...
  whitehouse.senate.gov 
climate change · fossil fuel · change conference
Sen. Whitehouse, Rep. Huffman Urge Climate Envoy Kerry to Oppose Oil Executive as COP28 Leader. The appointment of an oil company executive to head COP28 poses a risk to the negotiation process as well as the whole conference itself. The decision to name the chief executive of one of the worlds largest oil and gas companies as president of the next U.N. Climate Change Conference.
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Biden administration appoints Brown climate scientist Kim Cobb to President’s Intelligence Advisory...
  brown.edu 
climate change · climate scientist · advisory board
Kim Cobb is a Brown University professor and director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. She will join a White House advisory board charged with providing independent counsel on U.S. intelligence matters. Cobb is an award-winning climate scientist who served among the lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
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Editorial: Exxon’s deceit put the planet at risk
  expressnews.com 
climate change · exxon scientists · carbon dioxide
An analysis shows Exxon scientists accurately predicted the perils of global warming more than 40 years ago, says Harvard University and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact. The House must investigate this deceit and the harm it caused, says John Sutter. Sutter: Exxons deceit put the planet at risk.
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Pediatrician Describes Health Risks and Solutions to Country's Plastics Problem - ecoRI...
  ecori.org 
single-use plastics · tons of plastic · public health
Pediatrician: Disease, disability, and death occur across the whole life cycle of plastic, from production through use and disposal. Philip J. Landrigan, director of Boston Colleges Global Public Health Program, tried to soften the dour information with reminders of public actions that have reversed the harms of pollution in the past.
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Warning of ‘Off the Chart’ Temperatures as El Niño Set to Return...
  ecowatch.com 
el ni · el ni o · global temperature
Warning of Off the Chart Temperatures as El Nio Set to Return in 2023 - EcoWatch. Last year was the fifth hottest on record, but with the return of El. Nio - the climate pattern that warms the surface of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean - 2023 could prove to be even hotter. This would make it very likely that Earths temperature will warm by more than the 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature threshold.
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We Can’t Solve Our Climate Problems without Removing Their Main Cause: Fossil-Fuel...
  scientificamerican.com 
climate change · oil and gas · climate crisis
David Rothkopf: We need to be realistic about oil and gas, but carbon pollution is cause of climate crisis. He says it's not realistic to think you can solve a problem while continuing to do the very thing that caused it. He cites examples of how U.S. has been asked not to change, but Martin Luther King was told not to push too hard in the 1960s to gain civil rights. Rothpf: Realist arguments discourage those who think the world can be a different place.
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Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

AG, Rural Dev, FDA and Related Agencies SC

Appropriations Cmte

California

Commerce, Justice, Science SC

...

Constitution SC

Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism SC

Defense SC (Senate)

Democrat

Energy and Water Development SC

Human Rights and the Law SC

Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety SC

Interior & Environment SC

Rules & Admin Cmte

SC Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

Select Cmte on Intelligence

Senate

Senate - Transportation, HUD & Related Agencies

Senate Ag, Rural Dev, FDA & Related Agencies

Senate Appropriations Committee

Senate Judiciary Committee

US Caucus on International Narcotics Control

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has talked about president trump, climate change, and hazard mitigation grant more than any other topics.
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has amplified 2 articles in this period.
Daily Journal
  dailyjournal.com 
president biden · judges confirmed · federal bench
Since Democrats took control of the Senate in 2021, weve confirmed 97 Biden judicial nominees. That includes 12 new judges confirmed to Californias district courts and three new judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Nearly three-fourths of the judges we've confirmed nationwide over the past two years have been women. California continues to face a judicial emergency and a backlog of cases left over from the Trump administration.
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Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
  fema.gov 
hazard mitigation · grant program · mitigation grant
FEMAs Hazard Mitigation Grant Program provides funding to state, local, tribal and territorial governments so they can develop hazard mitigation plans and rebuild in a way that reduces, or mitigates, future disaster losses in their communities. In this program, homeowners and businesses cannot apply for a grant. However, a local community may apply for funding on their behalf.
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John Garamendi (D-CA)

Armed Services Cmte (House)

Aviation SC

California

Democrat

...

Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management

Highways and Transit

House

Readiness SC

Strategic Forces SC (House)

Transportation & Infrastructure Cmte

Water Resources and Environment SC

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, John Garamendi (D-CA) has talked about electric buses, battery electric commuter, and express bus service more than any other topics.
John Garamendi (D-CA) has amplified 2 articles in this period.
Thompson, Garamendi present check to SolTrans
  trib.al 
battery electric · electric commuter · public transit
U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson and John Garamendi present check to SolTrans. $2 million to Solano County Transit for the 100 percent Battery Electric Commuter Coaches project. This funding was secured in the Fiscal Year 2023 government funding bill.
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Garamendi, Thompson Present $2 Million Check to SolTrans for Electric Buses
  garamendi.house.gov 
electric buses · bus service · battery electric
Reps. John Garamendi and Mike Thompson presented a $2 million check to Solano County Transit (SolTrans) for the 100 percent Battery Electric Commuter Coaches project. This funding was secured in the Fiscal Year 2023 government funding bill. SolTrans is in the process of transitioning its fleet of diesel, hybrid diesel, and CNG buses to an all-electric fleet.
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Sharice Davids (D-KS)

Aviation SC

Democrat

Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management

Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access SC

...

Future Forum Caucus

Highways and Transit

House

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development

Joint Economic Cmte

Kansas

New Democrat Coalition

Oversight, Investigations and Regulations

Small Business Cmte

Transportation & Infrastructure Cmte

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, Sharice Davids (D-KS) has talked about university of kansas, kansas medical center, and rep. davids more than any other topics.
Sharice Davids (D-KS) has amplified 2 articles in this period.
Davids Celebrates Federal Funding for New Imaging Equipment at The University of...
  davids.house.gov 
kansas medical · university of kansas · kansas medical center
Rep. Sharice Davids visited the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) to celebrate passage of her funding request to purchase two new, state-of-the-art imaging machines. In December, the President signed a law fulfilling Davids request for an advanced CT machine and an advanced MRI machine. The new CT scanner will allow researchers to obtain 3-D reconstructions of internal organs, a technology the Medical Center currently lacks.
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Davids Celebrates Final Passage of Federal Funds for Electric Buses
  davids.house.gov 
electric buses · frank white · kansas city area
Rep. Sharice Davids joined Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) CEO Frank White III and community partners to celebrate passage of Davids funding request to acquire and replace electric buses. This was a joint request with Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05). In December, the President signed a law fulfilling Davids request for $4,000,000 to purchase as many as 10 new, zero-emission buses.
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Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation SC

Commerce, Science, & Transportation Cmte

Communication, Media, and Broadband SC

Constitution SC

...

Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism SC

East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy SC

Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights SC

Foreign Relations Cmte

Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety SC

Joint Economic Cmte

Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism SC

Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change, and Manufacturing SC

Republican

Rules & Admin Cmte

Senate

Senate Judiciary Committee

Space and Science SC

State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development SC

Texas

Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues SC

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, Ted Cruz (R-TX) has talked about inflation reduction act, sen. ted cruz, and fact check: true more than any other topics.
Ted Cruz (R-TX) has amplified 1 article in this period.
Sen. Ted Cruz Fact-Checks Al Gore’s Claim at World Economic Forum: ‘True’...
  tinyurl.com 
inflation reduction act · inflation reduction · ted cruz
Al Gore admitted and touted what critics have long said about the Inflation Reduction Act. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted a video clip of Gore speaking at WEFs annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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Kevin Cramer (R-ND)

Armed Service Committee (Senate)

Banking Housing & Urban Affairs Cmte

Budget Cmte

Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety SC

...

Economic Policy SC

Emerging Threats and Capabilities SC

Environment & Public Works Cmte

Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection SC

Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water SC

Housing, Transportation, and Community Development SC

North Dakota

Republican

SeaPower SC

Senate

Senate Budget Committee

Senate Veterans Affairs Committee

Strategic Forces SC (Senate)

Transportation & Infrastructure Cmte

Veterans' Affairs Cmte

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, Kevin Cramer (R-ND) has talked about federal highway administration, state transportation agencies, and infrastructure investment more than any other topics.
Kevin Cramer (R-ND) has amplified 1 article in this period.
Freight Groups Urge FHWA to Withdraw IIJA Memo | Transport Topics
  ttnews.com 
federal highway · transport topics · highway administration
Nearly two dozen groups, representing much of the freight sector, wrote to FHWA Administrator Shailen Bhatt on Jan. 18. Memo focused on implementation of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure law. Congressional Republicans have taken aim at the memos so-called fix it first stance.
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Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

Alaska

Appropriations Cmte

Children and Families SC

Commerce, Justice, Science SC

...

Defense SC (Senate)

Energy & Natural Resources Cmte

Energy SC (Senate)

Energy and Water Development SC

Health, Ed, Labor & Pensions Cmte

Homeland Security SC (Senate)

Indian Affairs Cmte

Interior, Environment and Related Agencies

National Parks SC

Primary Health and Retirement Security SC

Public Lands, Forests, and Mining SC

Republican

Senate

Senate - Military Construction, VA & Related Agencies

Senate Appropriations Committee

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has talked about pretty rocks, park service, and denali national park more than any other topics.
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has amplified 1 article in this period.
Construction to start on bridge to be suspended over landslide site in...
  alaskabeacon.com 
pretty rocks · national park · park service
Creating AI recap...
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John Cornyn (R-TX)

Constitution SC

Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism SC

Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure SC

Finance Cmte

...

Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety SC

Intellectual Property SC

International Narcotics Control

International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness SC

Republican

Select Cmte on Intelligence

Senate

Senate Judiciary Committee

Taxation & IRS Oversight SC

Texas

US Caucus on International Narcotics Control

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, John Cornyn (R-TX) has talked about salvation army, deer park, and red cross more than any other topics.
John Cornyn (R-TX) has amplified 1 article in this period.
How to help people impacted by the Houston-area tornado
  houstonchronicle.com 
salvation army · deer park · red cross
Disaster relief organizations and governments have begun to take action in the wake of Tuesday's tornado. Those who want to help are encouraged to groups working locally on relief such as, American Red Cross, The Salvation Army, The Texas Baptist Men Feeding Organization, The Adventist Community Services and The Second Harvest Food Banks. Pasadena Animal Shelter was hit by the tornado Tuesday, completely ripping off the roof while over 200 animals were inside.
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Mark Kelly (D-AZ)

Airland SC

Arizona

Armed Service Committee (Senate)

Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight SC

...

Democrat

Emerging Threats and Capabilities SC

Energy & Natural Resources Cmte

Environment & Public Works Cmte

Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water SC

Joint Economic Cmte

National Parks SC

Public Lands, Forests, and Mining SC

SC Transportation and Infrastructure

Senate

Special Cmte on Aging

Strategic Forces SC (Senate)

Water and Power SC

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, Mark Kelly (D-AZ) has talked about senator mark kelly, energy projects, and senator kelly more than any other topics.
Mark Kelly (D-AZ) has amplified 1 article in this period.
Senator Kelly Applauds Groundbreaking of New Arizona Renewable Energy Transmission Project -...
  kelly.senate.gov 
senator kelly · senator mark · mark kelly
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly applauded the groundbreaking of the Ten West Link, an energy infrastructure project in Arizona that will deliver low-cost electricity to homes across the state. Kelly is a member of the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR)
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Kamala Harris

Black Caucus

Democrat

Senate

Over the last 14 days in narratives related to Climate Change, Kamala Harris has talked about montgomery county public, county public schools, and electric buses more than any other topics.
Kamala Harris has amplified 1 article in this period.
Thousands of cleaner, quieter electric school buses to roll out soon in...
  abcnews.go.com 
public schools · electric buses · montgomery county public
School districts across the nation are beginning to roll out electric buses to transport children to and from school, with a big financial boost from the federal government. The vehicles are better for the environment and children's health, research has shown. As part of a new program funded by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law championed by President Joe Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency will award $5 billion over five years to school districts nationwide.
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Most Amplified Narrative If 5 or more members in this module have amplified the same narrative item, those amplification events are shown along this timeline.

Report: Solving the Climate Crisis 2022
  climatecrisis.house.gov 
Report: Solving the Climate Crisis 2022 highlights progress made by House Democrats to reduce heat-trapping pollution, lower energy costs, and create good-paying jobs across America by addressing the climate crisis. It also outlines progress made to help communities adapt to climate impacts and become more resilient in the face of worsening extreme weather events.

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