[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 97 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 97

  To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not 
              subject to the Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2011

 Mrs. Blackburn (for herself, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. 
 Bishop of Utah, Mrs. Bono Mack, Mr. Boren, Mr. Boustany, Mr. Brady of 
 Texas, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. 
Calvert, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. Coble, Mr. Coffman of Colorado, 
   Mr. Conaway, Mr. Davis of Kentucky, Mr. Garrett, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. 
Graves of Missouri, Mr. Hall, Mr. Herger, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Issa, Mr. Sam 
 Johnson of Texas, Mr. Jones, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Lee of New York, Mrs. 
    Lummis, Mr. Daniel E. Lungren of California, Mr. Marchant, Mr. 
 McClintock, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, Mrs. Myrick, Mr. Olson, Mr. Paul, 
  Mr. Petri, Mr. Rehberg, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. 
 Scalise, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Shuster, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Terry, and 
Mr. Young of Alaska) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not 
              subject to the Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Free Industry Act''.

SEC. 2. GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATION UNDER CLEAN AIR ACT.

    Section 302(g) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7602(g)) is amended 
by adding the following at the end thereof: ``The term `air pollutant' 
shall not include carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, 
hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride.''.

SEC. 3. CLIMATE CHANGE NOT REGULATED BY CLEAN AIR ACT.

    Nothing in the Clean Air Act shall be treated as authorizing or 
requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming.
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