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Representative Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) sponsored H.R. 4665, the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024, which would undermine our progress fighting the climate crisis at home and abroad. At a time when the United States should be doing more, not less, in the global fight against climate change, this bill provides no funding for programs designed to directly address climate change and its impacts, and explicitly prohibits funding from being used to implement the Paris Climate Agreement and other important multilateral institutions like the Green Climate Fund, the Clean Technology Fund, and for loss and damage. It also prohibits funding from being used for climate change-focused executive orders and for the Special Envoy on Climate. It rescinds over $11 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund created by the Inflation Reduction Act, includes troubling provisions on environmental review and permitting for cross-border projects, and seeks to undercut U.S. authority to regulate cross-border pipelines, including in ongoing State Department negotiations with Canada on Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline. On September 28, the House approved H.R. 4665 by a vote of 216-212 (House roll call vote 500). The Senate did not consider this legislation or any Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations bill in 2023.
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