Bill Text: OH HCR15 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: To urge Congress to take certain actions regarding
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-26 - Committee Report [HCR15 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2011-HCR15-Comm_Sub.html
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Representative Balderson
Cosponsors:
Representatives Blessing, Thompson, Adams, J., Carey, Maag, Hayes, Blair, Martin, Schuring, Buchy, Mecklenborg, Young, Ruhl, Bubp
To urge Congress to take certain actions regarding | 1 |
the United States Environmental Protection | 2 |
Agency's proposed regulations on air quality and | 3 |
greenhouse gas emissions. | 4 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE SENATE CONCURRING):
WHEREAS, The United States is recovering from the largest | 5 |
recession since the Great Depression. The U.S. government must do | 6 |
all that it can to promote economic recovery and foster a stable | 7 |
and predictable business environment that will lead to the | 8 |
creation of jobs; and | 9 |
WHEREAS, This economic recovery is threatened by regulations | 10 |
on air quality and greenhouse gas emissions proposed by the United | 11 |
States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). These proposed | 12 |
regulations threaten to harm the U.S. economy, job growth, and | 13 |
competitiveness in the global economy; and | 14 |
WHEREAS, The proposed regulations are known as the "train | 15 |
wreck" because of the numerous and overlapping requirements and | 16 |
the potentially devastating consequences of these regulations on | 17 |
the U.S. economy. The proposed regulations are in addition to the | 18 |
other burdensome regulations that are driving jobs and industry | 19 |
out of the country; and | 20 |
WHEREAS, Neither the USEPA nor the Administration of | 21 |
President Barack Obama has undertaken a comprehensive analysis of | 22 |
how the proposed regulations would affect the U.S. economy. The | 23 |
USEPA also has not analyzed what the environmental benefits of its | 24 |
proposed greenhouse regulations would be in terms of impacting the | 25 |
global climate; and | 26 |
WHEREAS, Though the proposed regulations are intended to | 27 |
improve public health, the public health and welfare actually will | 28 |
be negatively impacted if the proposed regulations take effect. | 29 |
The public health and welfare will suffer without significant job | 30 |
creation and economic improvement because people with good jobs | 31 |
are better able to take care of themselves and their families than | 32 |
those who are unemployed and because environmental improvement is | 33 |
only possible in a society that generates wealth; now therefore be | 34 |
it | 35 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 129th General Assembly | 36 |
of the State of Ohio, while supporting efforts to improve our | 37 |
country's air quality, urge the Congress of the United States to | 38 |
enact legislation prohibiting the United States Environmental | 39 |
Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions by any | 40 |
means necessary, including defunding the USEPA's greenhouse gas | 41 |
emission regulatory activities; and be it further | 42 |
RESOLVED, That we urge the Congress of the United States to | 43 |
enact legislation imposing a moratorium on the promulgation of any | 44 |
new air quality regulations, except those that directly address an | 45 |
imminent health or environmental emergency, by any means necessary | 46 |
for two years, including defunding the USEPA's air quality | 47 |
regulatory activities; and be it further | 48 |
RESOLVED, That we urge the Congress of the United States to | 49 |
require the Administration of President Barack Obama to study and | 50 |
make a report to Congress that identifies all regulatory | 51 |
activities that the USEPA intends to undertake in furtherance of | 52 |
its goal of "taking action on climate change and improving air | 53 |
quality" and specifies the cumulative effect of all those | 54 |
identified regulatory activities on the U.S. economy, job | 55 |
creation, and economic competitiveness. The study also should | 56 |
include any other federal agencies and departments that have | 57 |
expertise in and responsibility for the economy and the generation | 58 |
of electricity and its transmission through the electrical grid. | 59 |
The study also should provide an objective cost-benefit analysis | 60 |
of all of the USEPA's current and planned regulations; and be it | 61 |
further | 62 |
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives | 63 |
transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the | 64 |
President of the United States, to the Administrator of the United | 65 |
States Environmental Protection Agency, to the Speaker and Clerk | 66 |
of the United States House of Representatives, to the President | 67 |
Pro Tempore and Secretary of the United States Senate, to the | 68 |
members of the Ohio Congressional delegation, and to the news | 69 |
media of Ohio. | 70 |