SR 171 Illinois Senate · 97th Regular Session

URGES-GREENHOUSE GAS

Summary
Urges Congress to adopt legislation prohibiting the EPA, by any means necessary, from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, including if necessary defunding the EPA greenhouse gas regulatory activities, to impose a moratorium on the promulgation of any new air quality regulations by the EPA, except to directly address an imminent health or environmental emergency, for a period of at least two years, and require the present Presidential administration to undertake a comprehensive 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 of these regulations on the economy, jobs, and American economic competitiveness.
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Apr 2011
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Introduced Apr 12, 2011 Last action Jan 8, 2013
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John O. Jones
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