DHS gets a climate council. Here's what it actually does.
H.R. 3002 — Homeland Security Climate Change Coordination Act · Filed by Dan Goldman (D-NY) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 24, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill creates a new council within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to coordinate how the department identifies, addresses, and reduces the impacts of climate change on its operations, missions, assets, and personnel. The council will include senior officials from at least 20 DHS offices and components, develop climate risk strategies, and report annually to Congress for ten years on actions taken.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is the establishment of an internal DHS council tasked with identifying and mitigating climate impacts on departmental operations. It is a straightforward administrative coordination measure with no deregulation, subsidy, or private benefit.
What the text implies
- The council's authority to recommend 'organizational and resource realignments' may trigger internal DHS restructuring without explicit congressional approval of specific changes—implementation details depend on the Secretary's discretion.
- Annual reporting requirement extends ten years, creating a long-term congressional oversight mechanism for DHS climate adaptation; failure to report or implement may invite legislative scrutiny.
- Council's duty to oversee compliance with Executive Order 14008 embeds executive climate policy into DHS statutory structure, potentially insulating those directives from future executive reversal without legislative action.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill creates an internal coordination mechanism to help DHS anticipate and manage climate risks to its critical functions—emergency response, border security, disaster relief, and law enforcement. Citizens depend on these services; better climate preparedness in DHS operations strengthens their resilience and reduces disruption from climate-driven emergencies.
Named in the bill
Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Transportation Security Administration, United States Coast Guard, United States Secret Service, Executive Order 14008
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 4 Democrats.
- Apr 24, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 24, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Homeland Security · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $50,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 12 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Dan Goldman, the sponsor, reported $407,029 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Natat (national Assn of Towns and Townships — $50,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 15, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,114 characters) on Sep 18, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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