Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
To amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes.
The bill expands E15 sales and provides sizable regulatory relief to small refineries to preserve jobs and fuel supply, but it raises air‑quality and vehicle‑compatibility risks, shifts compliance costs that could affect fuel prices, and reduces confidentiality for exemption petitions.
FIRE Act
The bill gives states more flexibility and incentive to use mitigation (like prescribed burns) and increases EPA transparency for wildfire pollution petitions, at the cost of possible weaker air-quality enforcement, legal uncertainty for compliance, and modest additional federal workload and expense.
FENCES Act
The bill reduces near-term economic and regulatory burdens on states and businesses by excepting pollution traced to foreign or uncontrollable mobile sources, but it risks delaying emissions reductions, harming public health, and creating administrative and legal uncertainty.
RED Tape Act
This bill trades faster, lower-cost federal project and permitting processes for state/local governments and regulated applicants against reduced CEQ-mediated environmental oversight, which could weaken interagency review, public input, and protections for air quality and communities.
Affirming that the Federal Government should support school district investment in clean school buses.
The resolution encourages replacing diesel school buses to improve children's health, local air quality, and attendance, but achieving those benefits depends on covering substantial upfront vehicle and grid/infrastructure costs that may strain school districts.
Recognizing that ozone pollution can cause lung disease, asthma attacks, cardiovascular problems, and reproductive issues.
The bill would significantly improve air quality and public health—especially for children, respiratory patients, and communities—by tightening ozone and methane controls, but those benefits come with higher compliance and potential taxpayer costs and short-term regulatory uncertainty that could delay some gains.
Recognizing that particulate matter pollution can cause heart attacks, asthma, strokes, and premature death.
The resolution highlights evidence that cutting particulate pollution from fossil-fuel sources could produce large public-health and fiscal benefits for millions, but achieving those gains risks higher energy costs, localized job and economic disruption, and uneven benefits for frontline communities unless accompanied by transition and equity measures.
Recognizing that mercury pollution can cause severe health problems, including permanent brain damage, kidney damage, and birth defects.
The resolution aims to reduce mercury exposure and improve public advisories—benefiting children, pregnant people, and fish consumers—at the potential cost of higher energy and compliance expenses and added demands on state and local budgets.
Designating the month of April 2025 as "Earth Month" and expressing support for environmental stewardship and climate action.
The resolution increases public awareness and uplifts environmental justice and Indigenous stewardship, but it is largely symbolic and unlikely to produce direct funding or regulatory changes, risking a shift toward volunteer-driven actions rather than systemic solutions.
Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act of 2025
Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025
The bill trades near-term cost savings and preserved automaker/consumer flexibility by blocking federal vehicle emissions mandates for increased air pollution, health and environmental harms, regulatory uncertainty, and fragmented state-level rules.
Freedom to Haul Act of 2025
The bill favors short‑term economic relief, consumer choice, and industry flexibility for vehicles, but does so at the cost of delayed emissions reductions, worse air quality and health outcomes for vulnerable populations, and weaker incentives for long‑term clean‑vehicle innovation.
Renewable Fuel for Ocean-Going Vessels Act
The bill would reduce harmful ship emissions and improve air quality in port communities but would raise costs for fuel suppliers and likely consumers, while creating some transitional regulatory uncertainty.
Transportation Freedom Act
The bill steers tax incentives and regulatory relief to encourage domestic vehicle production and improve benefits for some auto workers and manufacturers, but does so by weakening or constraining stronger emissions and efficiency rules—trading near-term cost savings and onshoring gains for higher long-term pollution, health impacts, fiscal costs, and competitive pressure favoring larger firms.
No IRIS Act of 2025
The bill reduces regulatory burdens and short-term uncertainty for industry and agencies by restricting EPA's use of IRIS evaluations, but does so at the cost of weaker science-based protections that raise public health risks and may shift cleanup and health costs to states and taxpayers.
Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025
The bill shifts flexibility and financial relief toward small refineries and fuel producers (via returned RFS credits and relaxed fuel formulation limits) at the potential cost of higher fuel prices for consumers, increased ozone risk, and regulatory uncertainty.
New Source Review Permitting Improvement Act
The bill trades clearer, lower‑cost, and more predictable permitting for industry and reduced operational disruption against a meaningful risk of higher local and cumulative emissions, weakened enforcement, and greater environmental justice and health harms for nearby communities.
Cleaner Transportation Access for All Act
The bill accelerates nationwide EV charging, cleaner transit, and broader consumer incentives—boosting adoption, planning, and environmental benefits—but does so with sizable federal costs, pressures on transportation funding, equity and local‑infrastructure tradeoffs, and added administrative burdens that could shift costs and disruption onto taxpayers, states, utilities, and some workers.
Wildfire Air Quality Sensor Expansion Act of 2026
The bill expands funding, technical assistance, and standardized quality practices to bring more localized air‑quality monitoring (especially for smoke) to underserved areas—improving public health information—at the cost of expanded federal/state spending, added local operational burdens, potential data‑quality risks, and some legal/implementation rigidity that could create inequities or hamper future technical change.
MERP Clarifications Act of 2025
The bill reduces near-term compliance costs and administrative burdens for many small oil/gas producers and clarifies calculation/transparency, but at the cost of weaker enforcement, delayed incentives to cut methane, uneven state-level treatment, and reduced long‑term funding/certainty for mitigation.
RAAM Act
The bill simplifies and lowers federal fuel‑economy obligations and preempts state rules to reduce regulatory costs and ease interstate vehicle commerce, but in return it likely increases fuel use and emissions, weakens state-level climate and air‑quality tools, and may raise long‑term fuel costs for drivers.
Wildfire Reduction Market Expansion Act of 2026
Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act of 2026
The bill speeds and simplifies exceptional-event determinations and funds smoke-mitigation for schools and communities—helping tribes and reducing state burdens—while raising credible risks that faster deemed approvals, funding limits, and implementation delays could weaken air-quality protections or leave many high-need communities without support.
End EPA Abuse Act of 2026
The bill favors near-term grid reliability and preserving current vehicle markets by restricting EPA leverage, at the cost of limiting emissions regulation and slowing investment and adoption of cleaner technologies with potential long-term health, climate, and economic consequences.
Green Ribbon Act of 2026
The bill directs federal support, guidance, and modest awards to make school and public‑education facilities healthier, greener, and more educationally effective—reducing long‑term operating costs and boosting environmental literacy—while creating new federal spending and administrative overhead and posing upfront and equity challenges for underfunded districts and institutions.
Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2026
The bill increases transparency, planning, and standardization to identify and reduce AI data centers' environmental impacts—helping communities, utilities, and policymakers—while imposing new costs, potential data‑sensitivity risks, and the risk that growth in AI infrastructure could worsen local pollution and environmental justice harms unless stronger, binding protections follow.
Protect Domestic Oil and Gas Small Business Act of 2026
The bill reduces regulatory costs, legal exposure, and approval delays for owners of low‑production wells and state agencies, but does so at the likely expense of local air quality, public health, enforcement deterrence, and competitive fairness.
Tropospheric Ozone Research Act of 2026
The bill makes a modest federal investment to improve ozone monitoring, modeling, and research—strengthening public-health information, environmental projections, and potential agricultural protections—while imposing limited federal costs and creating a risk of future regulatory compliance costs for some businesses.
No Passes for Polluters Act of 2026
Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026
The bill centralizes energy/climate regulation and shields energy firms from many state‑level suits—reducing industry compliance and litigation burdens and potentially lowering energy costs and increasing reliability—while restricting state, local, tribal legal remedies and weakening incentives for emissions reductions, with attendant environmental, health, and taxpayer risks.
