Bill Text: IN SR0039 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Opposing numerous new regulations proposed by the United States EPA.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-05 - Senator Buck added as third author [SR0039 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-SR0039-Introduced.html
A SENATE RESOLUTION opposing the numerous new regulations proposed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
_______________________, read first time and referred to Committee on
MADAM PRESIDENT:
I offer the following resolution and move its adoption:
A SENATE RESOLUTION opposing the numerous new
regulations proposed by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency.
Whereas, The United States Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has proposed or is proposing numerous new
regulations, particularly in the area of air quality and
regulation of greenhouse gases, that are likely to have major
effects on the economy, jobs, and the competitiveness of the
United States in worldwide markets;
Whereas, The EPA's regulatory activity regarding air
quality and greenhouse gases is overly complex due to the
numerous and overlapping requirements and potentially
devastating consequences this regulatory activity may have
on the economy and causing increased concern that, with
cap-and-trade legislation having failed in Congress, the EPA
is attempting to obtain the same results through the adoption
of regulations;
Whereas, The EPA overregulation is driving jobs and
industry out of the United States;
Whereas, Neither the EPA nor the U.S. administration
has undertaken any comprehensive study of the cumulative
effect this new regulatory activity will have on the economy,
jobs, and the competitiveness of our country;
Whereas, The EPA has not performed any comprehensive study of the environmental benefits of its greenhouse regulation in terms of the impact on global climate;
Whereas, State agencies are routinely required to
identify the costs of their regulations and to justify those
costs in light of the benefits;
Whereas, Because the EPA has identified "taking action
on climate change and improving air quality" as its first
strategic goal for the 2011-2015 period, the EPA should be
required to identify the specific actions it intends to take to
achieve these goals and to assess the total cost of these
actions together;
Whereas, The Indiana Senate supports continuing
improvements in the quality of the nation's air and believes
that such improvements can be made in a sensible fashion
without damaging the economy as long as there is a full
understanding of the cost of the regulations at issue;
Whereas, The primary goal of government at the present
time must be to promote economic recovery and to foster a
stable and predictable business environment that will lead to
the creation of jobs; and
Whereas, Public health and welfare will suffer without
significant new job creation and economic improvement
because people with good jobs are better able to take care of
themselves and their families than the unemployed, and
environmental improvement is possible only in a society that
generates wealth: Therefore,
SECTION 1. That the Indiana Senate urges Congress to adopt
legislation prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from
regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and if necessary, to remove
funding for the EPA's greenhouse gas regulatory activities.
SECTION 2. That the Indiana Senate urges Congress to impose a
moratorium on promulgation of any new air quality regulation by the
EPA except to directly address an imminent health or environmental
emergency for a period of at least two years, and if necessary, by
removing funding for the EPA's air quality regulatory activities.
SECTION 3. That the Indiana Senate urges the U.S. administration
to undertake a study identifying all regulatory activity that the EPA
intends to undertake in furtherance of its goal of "taking action on
climate change and improving air quality" and specifying the
cumulative effect of all these regulations on the economy, jobs, and
American economic competitiveness. This should be a multi-agency
study drawing on the expertise of the EPA and other agencies and
departments having expertise in and responsibility for the economy and
the electric system and should provide an objective cost-benefit
analysis of all the EPA's current and planned regulations.
SECTION 4. That the copies of this resolution be transmitted by
the Secretary of the Senate to the Indiana Congressional delegation.
