MO HCR49

Calls on the United States Congress to adopt S.J.Res. 37 to disapprove the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards regulation promulgated on February 16, 2012

Opposes the regulation citing EPA's own analysis showing it costs $9.6 billion per year by 2016 with a total cost of $90 billion, making it the single most expensive EPA rule ever imposed on the electric power sector

Expresses concern that compliance costs will increase electricity prices for residential, commercial, and industrial consumers, particularly harming lower-income, fixed-income, and minority families in Missouri

Requests that EPA replace the regulation with an alternative that achieves mercury emission reductions without unnecessary increases in energy prices, job losses, or threats to electric grid reliability

Directs the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of Representatives to distribute copies of this resolution to each member of the Missouri Congressional delegation