Davis / 4 Senator Daigle

S.R._____

A BILL
To authorize the education of the public on the effects of climate change and create a plan and assistance for coastal
regions that are being affected by climate change now.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
Climate Change Relief Act of 2016.
SECTION 2. FINDINGS
Congress hereby finds and declares that,
1) On average, glaciers have thinned by over 10 metres since 1980.
2) Federal scientists have documented a sharp jump in this nuisance flooding often called sunny-day flooding
along both the East Coast and the Gulf Coast in recent years.
3) ...tidal floods are often just a foot or two deep, but they can stop traffic, swamp basements, damage cars, kill
lawns and forests, and poison wells with salt.
4) The federal government spends billions of taxpayer dollars in ways that add to the risks, by subsidizing local
governments and homeowners who build in imperiled locations along the coast.
5) Rising ocean temperatures have already caused massive coral bleaching, leading to the collapse of these
ecosystems which sustain huge numbers of fish.
6) Climate change has altered food availability for migratory species; birds arrive on schedule to find their food
sources--insects, seeds, flowering plants--have hatched or bloomed too early or not at all.
7) Wildfires, which are expected to continue to increase in number and severity as the climate changes, create
smoke and other unhealthy air pollutants.
8) Climate change is likely to diminish continued progress on global food security through production disruptions
that lead to local availability limitations and price increases, interrupted transport conduits, and diminished food
safety, among other causes.
9) Some regions of the United States have already experienced costly impactsin terms of both lives lost and
economic damages from observed changes in the frequency, intensity, or duration of certain extreme events.
10) Children, primarily because of physiological and developmental factors, will disproportionately suffer from the
effects of heat waves, air pollution, infectious illness, and trauma resulting from extreme weather events.
SECTION 3. STATUTORY LANGUAGE
A) The Climate Change Relief Act of 2016 will set up programs across the united states that will help educated
americans on the dangers of climate change and the very real threat that it is currently. Government funded programs
will teach people about the causes and effects of climate change in schools, and what could happen if nothing is
done. Along with these programs, a plan for coastal regions who are being hit by the harsh realities of climate change
now will be created so that people will not suffer as they have been, and money, lives, and land will be saved. The
plan will include specific evacuation plans, specific to the coastal region it applies to, regulations on interactions with
threatened or endangered animals, and interfering with land that is valuable. State officials should know and spread
the word about such regulations to those within their communities to hopefully save their town or city from
devastation.
B) The United States Environmental Agency will fund this bill. The EPA will take money from highway and road
expansion projects which spend on average 37.9 billion dollars annually. The majority of road work goes through
state departments of transportations that do not have the best ability to oversee these long-term decisions. Therefore
some of the money would be moved into more productive parts of government and far more important actions.
C) Once this bill is passed it should be looked over every five to six years to check on progress or the lack of
progress made to control the growing destruction of the planet. If changes should be made to this bill, they should be
checked with all EPA funded programs to check that the changes are necessary and effective. If the bill is not
checked or continued to pass the earth could continue to spiral down into unlivable conditions for everyone.