Senate Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

SENATE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 1015

 

 

 

A CONCURRENT MEMORIAL

 

urging the United States Congress to enact the Stopping EPA Overreach Act.

 

 

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To the Congress of the United States of America:

Your memorialist respectfully represents:

Whereas, the Stopping EPA Overreach Act seeks to prevent the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from exceeding its statutory authority in ways that were not contemplated by the United States Congress; and

Whereas, in the Stopping EPA Overreach Act, the State of Arizona urges Congress to find that:

(1)  The EPA has exceeded its statutory authority by promulgating regulations that were not contemplated by Congress in the authorizing language of the statutes enacted by Congress;

(2)  The EPA was correct not to classify greenhouse gases as pollutants prior to 2009;

(3)  No federal agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under current law; and

(4)  No attempt to regulate greenhouse gases should be undertaken without further congressional action; and

Whereas, the Stopping EPA Overreach Act should clarify that federal agencies do not have the authority to regulate climate change or global warming, thereby voiding certain EPA rules, and requires the Administrator of the EPA to provide an analysis of any regulation, rule or policy that describes its impacts on employment and jobs in the United States before proposing or finalizing that regulation, rule or policy; and

Whereas, any federal agency seeking to promulgate a regulation, rule or policy should be required to provide the cost-benefit analysis and peer‑reviewed science that were used in proposing the regulation, rule or policy; and

Whereas, penalties should be imposed for knowingly providing false information as support for a proposed regulation, rule or policy; and

Whereas, the people of Arizona fully support the Stopping EPA Overreach Act.

Wherefore your memorialist, the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring, prays:

1.  That the United States Congress enact the Stopping EPA Overreach Act.

2.  That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.


 

 

 

PASSED BY THE HOUSE MARCH 30, 2016.

PASSED BY THE SENATE FEBRUARY 18, 2016.

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCH 31, 2016.