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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.
Utilities, grid operators, and customers (including rural communities and homeowners) are less likely to face federal rules forcing fuel-switching or other rapid operational changes, reducing near-term risk to electric-grid reliability and service interruptions.
Owners and sellers of internal-combustion vehicles (consumers and auto dealers) are protected from EPA actions that would restrict the sale or use of such vehicles, preserving current markets and consumer choice.
All Americans — especially children, people with disabilities, rural residents, and homeowners — could face higher air pollution and associated health risks because the EPA's ability to set or tighten emissions standards and to phase down greenhouse-gas–emitting vehicles is limited.
Manufacturers, clean-energy companies, utilities, and investors may see reduced regulatory certainty and constraints on requiring certain technologies, which could discourage investment and slow deployment of low-emission and electrification technologies.
By protecting existing fossil-fuel infrastructure and limiting federal ability to mandate cleaner vehicle technologies, the bill risks locking in higher-emitting equipment and delaying grid and transportation modernization, with longer-term costs to communities and taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Narrows EPA authority under the Clean Air Act by prohibiting regulations that restrict vehicle/engine sales, force fuel-switching, reduce grid reliability, or require infeasible/cost-prohibitive technologies.
Official title: 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 24, 2026 by Mike Lee · Last progress June 24, 2026
Amends the Clean Air Act to limit the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to issue regulations that would, among other things, restrict sales or use of any vehicle or engine type, force fuel-switching at power plants, or require technologies that are commercially unavailable, cost-prohibitive, or infeasible due to geography, climate, or infrastructure. The amendment also bars regulations that would reduce electric-grid reliability or substantially expand EPA authority beyond what Congress intended. The bill is a targeted change to one statutory provision; it does not appropriate funds or create new programs. It primarily constrains agency rulemaking by adding explicit prohibitions on certain regulatory outcomes and types of requirements the Administrator may adopt under the Clean Air Act provision being amended.