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ND HCR3028
Concurrent Resolution
Status
3/28/2011
Primary Sponsor
Bette Grande
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AI Summary
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Urges Congress to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions by any legal means, including defunding greenhouse gas regulatory activities if necessary.
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Imposes a moratorium on new EPA air quality regulations for at least two years, with exceptions only for regulations directly addressing imminent health or environmental emergencies.
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Requires the administration to conduct a multiagency study identifying all EPA regulatory activities related to climate change and air quality, and analyzing their cumulative effects on the economy, jobs, and American economic competitiveness.
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Directs the Secretary of State to distribute the resolution to the President, Congressional leadership, the EPA Administrator, the Office of Management and Budget Director, and all North Dakota Congressional Delegation members.
Legislative Description
A concurrent resolution urging Congress to adopt legislation prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency by any legal means from regulating greenhouse emissions, including, if necessary, defunding Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas regulatory activities; imposing a moratorium on adoption on any new air quality regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency by any legal means, except those regulations directly addressing an imminent health or environmental emergency, for a period of at least two years; and requiring the administration to undertake a study identifying all regulatory activity the Environmental Protection Agency 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.
Last Action
Signed by Speaker
3/28/2011