Bill Text: CA ACR143 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pollution: Environmental Protection Agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-11-30 - From committee without further action. [ACR143 Detail]

Download: California-2009-ACR143-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 143	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman

                        MARCH 8, 2010

   Relative to pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 143, as introduced, Hagman. Pollution: Environmental
Protection Agency.
   This measure would support the bipartisan efforts reflected in
federal Senate Joint Resolution 26 to prevent the Environmental
Protection Agency from acting independently to regulate carbon
dioxide as a pollutant while there continues to be a vigorous,
legitimate, and substantive debate in Congress and the scientific
community regarding the need for any such regulation.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, On April 17, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency
formally issued an endangerment finding declaring carbon dioxide and
five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that endanger public
health and welfare under the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Sec.
7401 et seq.); and
   WHEREAS, On January 21, 2010, a bipartisan group of 39 United
States Senators introduced Senate Joint Resolution 26, pursuant to
the Congressional Review Act (Public Law 104-121), to stop the
Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide
emissions under the federal Clean Air Act; and
   WHEREAS, The Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to impose
back-door climate regulations with no input from Congress will not
only add a thick, new layer of federal bureaucracy, but also serve to
depress, slow down, and increase the expense of economic activity,
rendering it less efficient; and
   WHEREAS, The Environmental Protection Agency's adoption and
implementation of regulations restricting carbon dioxide emissions
will have serious financial and economic implications for California;
and
   WHEREAS, At a time when California is fighting to save jobs and
stabilize the economy, we cannot afford to stand idly by while the
Environmental Protection Agency acts in an unprecedented and risky
manner, especially when any regulation of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases is a matter that should be left to Congress; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the California Legislature supports the
bipartisan efforts reflected in federal Senate Joint Resolution 26 to
prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from acting
independently to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant while there
continues to be a vigorous, legitimate, and substantive debate in
Congress and the scientific community regarding the need for any such
regulation.