S. 995

119th CONGRESS 1st Session

To repeal a rule of the Environmental Protection Agency with respect to multi-pollutant emissions standards, to amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new motor vehicles, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES · March 12, 2025 · Sponsor: Mr. Crapo · Committee: Committee on Environment and Public Works

Table of contents

• S. 995
  • SEC. 1. Short title
  • SEC. 2. Repeal of multi-pollutant emissions standards for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles
  • SEC. 3. Ensuring tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new motor vehicles

SEC. 1. Short title

• This Act may be cited as the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025.

SEC. 2. Repeal of multi-pollutant emissions standards for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles

• The final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency entitled (89 Fed. Reg. 27842 (April 18, 2024)) shall have no force or effect. Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles

SEC. 3. Ensuring tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new motor vehicles

• (a) In general
  • Section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act () is amended— 42 U.S.C. 7521(a)(2)
    • by striking (2) Any regulationand inserting (2)(A) Any regulation; and
      • Any regulation, including a revision to a regulation, prescribed under paragraph (1), including any regulation prescribed after January 1, 2021, and any regulation proposed after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, shall not—
        • (i) mandate the use of any specific technology; or
        • (ii) result in limited availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.
    • by adding at the end the following:
• (b) Necessary revisions to regulations
  • Not later than 24 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall promulgate such revisions to regulations as may be necessary to conform those regulations to subparagraph (B) of section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act () (as added by subsection (a)). 42 U.S.C. 7521(a)(2)