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US HB6185
Bill
Status
11/20/2025
Primary Sponsor
Veronica Escobar
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AI Summary
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Authorizes the President to impose sanctions on foreign persons who engage in activities that exacerbate climate change, including greenhouse gas emissions inconsistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, illegal deforestation, destruction of carbon sinks, and misrepresentation of environmental impacts
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Sanctions include visa denial or revocation, blocking of property and financial transactions in the United States, and other penalties under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
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Establishes U.S. policy to apply Global Magnitsky sanctions to corruption and human rights abuses against environmental defenders, Indigenous communities, and individuals displaced by climate change
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Expresses sense of Congress that the U.S. should scale international climate finance to more than $11 billion annually and encourage other countries to implement similar targeted measures
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Authorizes appropriations to the Office of Foreign Assets Control to support targeting of persons under this Act and enhance enforcement of Global Magnitsky sanctions
Legislative Description
Targeting Environmental and Climate Recklessness Act of 2025
Environmental protection
Last Action
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means, 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.
11/20/2025