CS/HM 1375

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to take additional action to clarify and specify
4	the Environmental Protection Agency's legal and regulatory
5	obligations with respect to greenhouse gases.
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7	WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency has begun
8	implementation of rulemaking that describes a nationwide plan to
9	regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and
10	WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to
11	regulate greenhouse gases is very expansive in scope,
12	envisioning a nationwide cap and trade program for greenhouse
13	gases, additional motor vehicle regulations, and economy-wide
14	restrictions impacting a wide range of industries, including
15	dairy and beef operations, office buildings, hospitals, schools,
16	large homes, and houses of worship, and even regulating the
17	greenhouse gas emissions from lawnmowers, and
18	WHEREAS, the United States Court of Appeals for the
19	District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the Environmental
20	Protection Agency does not have authority to carry out a cap and
21	trade plan under the Clean Air Act, and
22	WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency's plan
23	represents policymaking that is the prerogative of the
24	legislative branch and that exceeds its administrative authority
25	to execute the laws enacted by Congress, and
26	WHEREAS, climate change is a global issue, not a local or
27	regional pollution issue, which the Clean Air Act was designed
28	to address, and
29	WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency's plan would
30	impose a massive economic burden on America without appreciably
31	reducing worldwide concentrations of greenhouse gases, NOW,
32	THEREFORE,
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34	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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36	That the Congress of the United States is urged to take
37	additional action to clarify and specify the Environmental
38	Protection Agency's legal and regulatory obligations with
39	respect to greenhouse gases.
40	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
41	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
42	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
43	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
44	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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