[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 15 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 15

 To prohibit the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions in the United 
  States until China, India, and Russia implement similar reductions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 25 (legislative day, January 5), 2011

  Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions in the United 
  States until China, India, and Russia implement similar reductions.

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

SECTION 1. CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTIONS IN CHINA, INDIA, AND RUSSIA.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency or the head of any other Federal 
agency shall not regulate carbon dioxide emissions until the date on 
which the Secretary of Commerce certifies in writing that each of the 
People's Republic of China, the Republic of India, and Russia have 
initiated measures that require carbon dioxide emission reductions that 
are substantially similar to the carbon dioxide emission reductions 
proposed for the United States.
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