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The bill preserves flexibility and planning autonomy for states, utilities, and vehicle manufacturers but does so by constraining EPA authority in ways that could delay pollution reductions, increase litigation, and slow progress on climate and public‑health goals.
Electric utilities and grid operators (and the state regulators who oversee them) keep flexibility to choose technologies and fuels rather than being forced into specific costly mandates, reducing the risk of sudden compliance expenses.
Vehicle manufacturers and sellers are protected from federal rules that would effectively ban the sale or use of internal-combustion engine vehicles, preserving current business models and consumer choice in the near term.
States and other regulated entities retain the ability to plan infrastructure and investment timelines without facing sudden federal requirements that could be infeasible given local geography or grid constraints.
Homeowners, children, people with disabilities and other residents could face slower air-quality improvements because the EPA may be limited in adopting rules that phase down pollution from vehicles and power plants.
The provision could prevent the EPA from requiring emissions-reducing technologies that incur upfront costs but deliver long‑term pollution and health benefits, shifting costs onto public health and future budgets.
The statutory language creates ambiguity about what counts as ‘significantly expanding’ agency authority, likely increasing litigation and regulatory delays that burden states, utilities, and nonprofits.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Limits EPA authority under the Clean Air Act to issue rules that ban types of vehicles/engines, require fuel-switching, reduce grid reliability, or mandate infeasible technologies.
Official title: To amend the Clean Air Act to preserve consumer vehicle choice, protect the electric grid, and impose limits on regulations under that Act, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 25, 2026 by Andrew S. Clyde · Last progress June 25, 2026
Amends the Clean Air Act to limit the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator’s ability to issue regulations, waivers, or authorizations that would restrict the sale or use of vehicles or engines (including new internal-combustion vehicles), force fuel-switching at power plants, reduce electric grid reliability, require technologies that are commercially unavailable or infeasible, or otherwise expand EPA authority beyond congressional intent. It also reorganizes and retitles the statutory language about the Administrator’s regulatory authority and regional offices.