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H.J.Res. 88119th CongressSigned into lawLatest action Jun 12, 2025Decoded by AI · checked against the record
Official title: Providing congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Advanced Clean Cars II; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision".
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Congress voided the EPA waiver letting California require rising EV sales, forcing the state and about a dozen others back to federal emissions rules.
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Using the Congressional Review Act, Congress canceled the EPA's early 2025 decision that had granted California permission to enforce its Advanced Clean Cars II program. That program would have required automakers to sell a growing share of zero-emission vehicles in California over time. With the waiver canceled, California's stricter vehicle emissions standards cannot take effect under that approval.
California and roughly a dozen states that had adopted California's rules are directly affected, as are automakers that sell vehicles in those states. Car buyers in those states, environmental groups, and consumers who follow clean air or electric vehicle policy are also touched by this change.
California and the states that followed its program must now apply the nationwide federal vehicle emissions standards instead of their own stricter requirements. Automakers selling in those states no longer need to meet California's zero-emission vehicle targets, and buyers in those states will not face the same push toward electric vehicles that California's rules would have created.
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Latest action: — Became Public Law No: 119-16.