85R10992 RMA-D
By: Darby H.C.R. No. 84
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Throughout the Obama administration, the federal
government waged a campaign of overregulation that caused
significant harm to the oil and gas industry in the Lone Star State;
and
WHEREAS, Despite protests from Texas and other oil- and
gas-producing states, the U.S. government has implemented a litany
of massive federal regulations, resulting in an unnavigable network
of rules and guidelines that has produced greater economic hardship
but insignificant environmental benefits; such policies have led
the State of Texas to join with many other oil- and gas-producing
states in filing more than 20 lawsuits against federal overreach;
and
WHEREAS, A flourishing oil and gas industry in Texas is vital
to our nation's energy independence from foreign and hostile energy
cartels; it is paramount that the federal government transcend
partisan politics and stop misusing regulatory power and instead
work with Texas to create better energy policies that will
strengthen our economy, provide more good-paying jobs, and enhance
our national security; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby urge Congress and the executive branch of the federal
government to identify key federal regulations currently under the
authority of the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S.
Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Energy, or other
federal agencies, to determine whether they should be preserved,
revised, delegated to state agencies, or eliminated; and, be it
further
RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature encourage Congress and
the executive branch of the federal government to work in
conjunction with Texas on delegating the authority of federal
energy regulations to the state's regulatory agencies, in an effort
to mitigate the overregulation of the oil and gas industry in the
Lone Star State; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
the speaker of the House of Representatives and to the president of
the Senate of the United States Congress, and to all members of the
Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this resolution
be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to
the Congress of the United States of America.