HR 391 Clean Air Act
By dipinion on Sep 30, 2009 in Congress, Corruption, Environment, House of Representatives, Politics
TN Representatives Marsha Blackburn is trying to stop the EPA of taking on regulation of Cap & Trade when the bill doesn’t pass, because Obama is trying the backdoor approach to what he wants. To destroy and eliminate certain industries he feels should not be in business such as the Coal Industry. Please review this and if this is defining what is not in the Clean Air Act. This is to stop Obama from destroying more of this country.
To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not subject to the Act, and for other purposes.
111TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 391
To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not
subject to the Act, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 9, 2009
Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. BURTON of Indiana,
Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. SHIMKUS,
Mr. TERRY, Mr. NUNES, Mr. GOHMERT, and Mr. GINGREY of Georgia)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce
A BILL
To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse
gases are not subject to the Act, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATION UNDER CLEAN
4 AIR ACT.
5 Section 302(g) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.
6 7602(g)) is amended by adding the following at the end
7 thereof: ‘‘The term ‘air pollutant’ shall not include carbon
8 dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide,
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1 hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur
2 hexafluoride.’’.
3 SEC. 2. CLIMATE CHANGE NOT REGULATED BY CLEAN AIR
4 ACT.
5 Nothing in the Clean Air Act shall be treated as au
6 thorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or
7 global warming.
http://blackburn.house.gov/UploadedFiles/H_R_391.pdf
Her statement
| Blackburn Reacts To Proposed EPA Rules Bureaucrats
Washington, Sep 30 - Congressman Marsha Blackburn reiterated her push to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gasses under the Clean Air Act in the face of bureaucratic steps the agency took today. Blackburn believes that it is wrong for any executive agency to implement programs whose authorizing legislation has yet to become law. These rules would require the installation of technology whenever a facility emitting at least 25,000 tons of greenhouse gasses a year is updated. The EPA rule would require vast new permitting and huge additional costs on entities the EPA classifies as “major emitters”. The new rules could force many factories to close. “The rules proposed by the EPA are a virtual gun to the head of Congress,” Congressman Blackburn said. “As we carefully consider Cap and Trade legislation, the EPA is rushing to implement the bill before it is passed. The economic and environmental ramifications of the Cap and Trade bill are enormous, which is why it barely passed the House. Sweeping reform like this must be left to Congress, as representatives of the people, to implement; not unaccountable bureaucrats at the EPA.” Blackburn is the sponsor of H.R. 391, a bill that would prohibit the EPA from regulating greenhouse gasses under the Clean Air Act. Unless her bill becomes law, the EPA will be free to impose economy-killing regulation even as the legislation that would support it struggles to pass both houses of Congress.
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