73rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2005 Regular Session
 
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 LC 3655
 
                       Senate Resolution 2
 
Sponsored by Senator KRUSE; Senators BEYER, FERRIOLI, GEORGE,
  MORSE, B STARR, C STARR, WHITSETT, WINTERS
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Declares that state agencies should not adopt controls of
greenhouse gas emissions unless required by state or federal law.
 
                        SENATE RESOLUTION
  Whereas the United States is a party to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change; and
  Whereas the framework sets forth a global approach for the
control of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases; and
  Whereas the framework was, in part, responsible for a reduction
of greenhouse gas emissions of industrialized countries in the
period of 1990 to 2000; and
  Whereas a worldwide agreement for further emissions reductions
resulted in the adoption of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an agreement
that imposed legally-binding targets for emissions reductions on
industrialized countries; and
  Whereas the United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol,
due in part to the exemption for developing countries; and
  Whereas carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are not
considered hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act
(P.L. 88-206); and
  Whereas greenhouse gas emissions reductions undertaken solely
by industrialized countries, individual countries or individual
states are made at the economic cost of those individual
countries or states and fail to significantly control global
emissions; and
  Whereas the control mechanisms for greenhouse gases may impose
significant economic costs on electric power generation,
industrial and manufacturing activities, automobile and truck
transportation, forestry and agriculture, and construction; and
  Whereas the imposition of greenhouse gas controls by individual
states imposes economic costs that may be detrimental to local
industries because of the nature of the global economy; and
  Whereas strategies for management of greenhouse gases should be
broad-ranging and affect all producers of greenhouse gases; now,
therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Oregon:
  That we, the members of the Senate of the Seventy-third
Legislative Assembly, declare that, except as otherwise may be
required by state or federal law, state agencies should not
 
impose requirements relating to the control of greenhouse gas
emissions.
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