Achieve a 100% clean energy economy by 2050.

Lauren Underwood · Illinois · Democratic

policy impact 0.74 specificity 0.90 extraction confidence 88%

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Occurrences

Lauren believes we must achieve a 100% clean energy economy by 2050.

Commits to reaching a fully clean energy economy by 2050.

Climate Change - Underwood for Congress
campaign · campaign_site · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

"Lauren believes we must achieve a 100% clean energy economy by 2050." The page also says she supported the Inflation Reduction Act and that it accelerates the transition to a clean energy economy.

Lauren Underwood’s campaign site still states the 2050 clean-energy goal as an active position, not a completed outcome.

unresolved same_term

Climate Change - Underwood for Congress
campaign · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 94%

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The most recent votes listed on Underwood’s House page are dated 04/22/2026 and include H.R. 4690 and H.RES. 1182; the page shows no enactment or final federal action establishing a 100% clean-energy economy by 2050 during the lookback window.

Recent official House activity shows continued legislative work, but nothing that delivers the clean-energy-by-2050 promise.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Votes and Legislation | Representative Lauren Underwood
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 82%

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Underwood announced FY2027 community project funding requests that include projects to make drinking water clean and safe and to improve public transit systems in northern Illinois.

The latest district funding announcement shows climate-adjacent infrastructure activity, but it is not the promised 100% clean energy economy.

partial same_term A for effort

Underwood Announces More Than $30 Million for Local Priorities Selected for Community Project Funding | Representative Lauren Underwood
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 73%

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Underwood's campaign climate page states that she believes the United States must reach a 100% clean energy economy by 2050 and cites her support for the Inflation Reduction Act as progress toward that goal.

The promise remains framed as a future goal, with IRA support presented as progress rather than completion.

unresolved same_term

Climate Change - Underwood for Congress
campaign · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%

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Congress.gov lists Underwood as an original cosponsor of H.R.5221. The bill set a national goal of a 100% clean economy by no later than 2050 but remained at the introduced/referred stage.

Underwood backed a direct legislative vehicle for the promise, but it was not enacted.

partial same_term A for effort

Cosponsors - H.R.5221 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): 100% Clean Economy Act of 2019
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 93%

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The House Clerk's roll call for H.R.5376 shows the motion passed 220-207 and lists Rep. Underwood, Democrat of Illinois, voting Yea.

Underwood voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, a major enacted climate and clean-energy measure, but this vote alone did not establish a 100% clean-energy economy by 2050.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 420 | Bill Number: H. R. 5376
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 95%

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Congress.gov records H.R.5376 as Public Law 117-169 and summarizes clean-energy provisions including clean electricity production and investment tax credits, residential clean-energy credits, clean vehicle credits, and clean fuel incentives.

The enacted law advanced clean-energy deployment but did not itself mandate or complete a 100% clean-energy economy by 2050.

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H.R.5376 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

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EPA's national inventory page reports U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions in 2022 were 6,343 million metric tons CO2e before land-sector sequestration and 5,489 million metric tons CO2e after sequestration.

Official emissions data show the United States had not reached a zero-emissions or fully clean economy as of the latest inventory evidence available in the lookback.

unresolved same_term

Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks | US EPA
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

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Congress.gov lists Underwood as sponsor of H.R.1645, introduced February 27, 2025, to continue the CDC Climate and Health program; the bill's latest action was referral to House Energy and Commerce.

Underwood continued climate-related legislative work in later service, but this bill was not enacted and is not a full clean-energy-economy mandate.

partial same_term A for effort

All Info - H.R.1645 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Climate and Health Protection Act
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 78%

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Assessments

unresolved unknown A for effort

The promised outcome is a 100% clean energy economy by 2050, which is a future national target and has not yet been achieved or finally enacted as a binding federal mandate. Underwood materially supported climate and clean-energy policy, including cosponsoring the 100% Clean Economy Act and voting for the Inflation Reduction Act, but those actions advanced the goal rather than delivering the full promised outcome. Because the 2050 deadline remains in the future, the promise is best treated as unresolved rather than failed.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

unresolved same_term A for effort

The promised endpoint, a 100% clean energy economy by 2050, has not yet been achieved and the 2050 deadline remains in the future. Underwood has supported climate-related federal action, including the Inflation Reduction Act and district infrastructure funding, but the evidence does not show enactment of a binding federal outcome that fully delivers a 100% clean-energy economy. Because she is still in federal office and the promise is framed around a future national target, the proper status is unresolved rather than never or delivered.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 84%