H5445, the 2021 “Act on Climate,” mandates a statewide target of “net-zero” emissions by 2050, including an “equitable transition to climate compliance for environmental justice populations.”
The House passed H5445 on March 23, 2021, by a vote of 53 to 22. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill—modeled after the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III report—is a back-end, globalist-led effort to codify international treaty language on “environmental justice” into state law. There is no constitutional authority for federal, state, or local government to pursue such policy, particularly in the name of “climate change.” Unjust encroachments on Americans’ private property or undue interference with their free-market enterprise is protected against by the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment.