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Climate change is a pressing economic and national security crisis that especially threatens Hawai‘i.

In the Senate, Senator Schatz is leading efforts to address this planetary emergency and build a clean energy future.

In March 2019, Senator Schatz was selected to chair the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis. In this role, he led ten senators tasked with investigating, holding hearings, and issuing findings on the consequences of climate change. The committee’s goal was to underscore the broad impacts of inaction on climate change and find solutions, with a focus on ensuring that every worker, industry, and community across the country benefits from the transition to a clean energy economy. The committee also provided oversight of the corporate interests that support climate denial and block climate action.

The committee released its final report in August 2020 — and provided a framework for the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, which was signed into law in 2022 and is considered the largest climate action in human history. 

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