<a id="pl.1.2"></a><var>1.2</var>urging Congress to adopt legislation delaying certain regulation of greenhouse gas <br/>
<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>emissions.<br/>
<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>WHEREAS, the Minnesota Legislature wishes to express the need for the United States <br/>
<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>Congress to help provide a fair and effective approach for climate and energy supply issues that <br/>
<a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>safeguards American jobs, ensures affordable energy for America, and maintains America's <br/>
<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>global competitiveness; and <br/>
<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>WHEREAS, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's plan to regulate greenhouse <br/>
<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>gas (GHG) emissions from new cars and light trucks will trigger the same regulation of GHG <br/>
<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>emissions from stationary sources like manufacturing facilities, power plants, hospitals, and <br/>
<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>commercial establishments; and <br/>
<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>WHEREAS, regulating greenhouse gas emissions from "stationary sources" under the <br/>
<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>Clean Air Act would be a great burden on manufacturing and the economy in general; and <br/>
<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>WHEREAS, the pending EPA effort would burden progress on two of the nation's top <br/>
<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>priorities, environmental improvement and economic recovery, by imposing onerous permitting <br/>
<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>requirements that will significantly delay or even eliminate investments in new energy efficient <br/>
<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>technologies; and <br/>
<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>WHEREAS, over four million jobs were lost in 2009 and these proposed regulations have <br/>
<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>the potential to cause even more job losses; and <br/>
<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>WHEREAS, the regulatory requirements of the Clean Air Act will overwhelm state agencies <br/>
<a id="pl.1.21"></a><var>1.21</var>which are not equipped to handle the estimated six million permitting requests anticipated; and <br/>
<a id="pl.2.1"></a><var>2.1</var>WHEREAS, only Congress can act to avoid the significant costs and burdens imposed by <br/>
<a id="pl.2.2"></a><var>2.2</var>the regulations on stationary sources, which even the EPA admits will lead to "absurd results"; <br/>
<a id="pl.2.3"></a><var>2.3</var>NOW, THEREFORE, <br/>
<a id="pl.2.4"></a><var>2.4</var>BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that it encourages the <br/>
<a id="pl.2.5"></a><var>2.5</var>Congress of the United States to adopt legislation that would postpone the EPA's effort to regulate <br/>
<a id="pl.2.6"></a><var>2.6</var>greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources using existing Clean Air Act authority until <br/>
<a id="pl.2.7"></a><var>2.7</var>Congress adopts a balanced approach to address climate and energy supply issues without <br/>
<a id="pl.2.8"></a><var>2.8</var>crippling the economy. <br/>
<a id="pl.2.9"></a><var>2.9</var>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota is <br/>
<a id="pl.2.10"></a><var>2.10</var>directed to prepare copies of this memorial and transmit them to the President of the United <br/>
<a id="pl.2.11"></a><var>2.11</var>States, the President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and the Clerk of <br/>
<a id="pl.2.12"></a><var>2.12</var>the United States House of Representatives, the chair of the Senate Committee on Environment <br/>
<a id="pl.2.13"></a><var>2.13</var>and Public Works, the chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Minnesota's <br/>
<a id="pl.2.14"></a><var>2.14</var>Senators and Representatives in Congress.<br/>