A resolution recognizing that climate change poses a growing threat to public health and necessitates coordinated action to mitigate its impacts and safeguard the health and well-being of all people in the United States.
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Latest Action · July 10, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S4318-4319)
S. Res. 318 is a Senate resolution recognizing climate change as a major public health threat and calling for coordinated federal action to address it. The resolution documents how climate change is already harming Americans through worsened respiratory illnesses, heat-related cardiovascular disease, mental health complications, water-borne diseases, pregnancy complications, and displacement—with disproportionate impacts on people with disabilities, low-income communities, communities of color, rural areas, Tribal nations, and workers in outdoor industries. The resolution calls on the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to increase health sector climate preparedness, prioritize funding for historically underserved communities and rural health providers, improve data collection on climate health impacts, reinstate and fully staff the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, support workforce training in green jobs and emergency response, and ensure meaningful community involvement in climate-health decision-making. Additionally, it urges the Department of Labor to establish workplace heat protection standards for workers. While this is a non-binding sense-of-the-Senate resolution without specific new funding or timeline, it expresses the Senate's position that federal agencies should use existing resources and authorities to combat climate-related health threats.
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