Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9573 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9573 To impose an assessment related to fossil fuel emissions, to establish the Polluters Pay Climate Fund, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 12, 2024 Mr. Nadler (for himself, Ms. Chu, Ms. Norton, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Carson, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Balint, Mr. Jackson of North Carolina, Mrs. Ramirez, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Ms. Schakowsky, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, and Ms. Bush) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Energy and Commerce, 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 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To impose an assessment related to fossil fuel emissions, to establish the Polluters Pay Climate Fund, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act of 2024''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) climate change, resulting primarily from the combustion of fossil fuels, is an immediate, grave threat to the communities, environment, and economy of the United States; (2) severe consequences of climate change have already materialized in the United States, including rising sea levels, increasing temperatures, extreme weather events, flooding, heat waves, loss of biodiversity, and other climate change-driven ecosystem threats; (3) the Federal Government jointly w