HR 1070 Summary

• Recognizes the President's Climate Action Plan as "environmental extremism" that will negatively impact Oklahoma's economy, particularly agriculture

• Opposes federal regulation of methane gas emissions from livestock and other species, and opposes overreaching agricultural regulations that increase production costs

• States agriculture accounts for only 8% of greenhouse gas emissions and argues limiting dairy cattle enteric fermentation is unreasonable and detrimental to Oklahoma producers

• Directs distribution of the resolution to Oklahoma's Congressional delegation, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate

• Adopted by the Oklahoma House of Representatives on May 23, 2014