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S.J.Res. 45119th CongressIn committeeLatest action Apr 4, 2025Decoded by AI · checked against the record
Official title: A joint resolution providing for 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".
Introduced:
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SJRES 45 would cancel the EPA waiver behind California's zero-emission vehicle mandate, affecting California and a dozen-plus other states.
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SJRES 45 uses the Congressional Review Act to cancel an EPA decision that gave California permission to enforce its own stricter vehicle emission rules, known as the Advanced Clean Cars II program. Those rules require automakers to sell an increasing share of zero-emission vehicles each year, with a full ban on new gas-only car sales by 2035. If passed and signed, the EPA permission would be eliminated and California's stricter standards could not take effect.
Car buyers and automakers are most directly affected, particularly those in California and the more than a dozen other states that have chosen to follow California's emission standards instead of federal ones. Those additional states would also lose access to California's program because their ability to follow it depends on the EPA waiver remaining in place.
Without the waiver, automakers would no longer face California's separate zero-emission vehicle sales requirements in any of the affected states. Air quality in those regions could also be affected, since the California rules were aimed at reducing tailpipe pollution.
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Right now: a Senate committee is reviewing it. If the House changes it, it goes back to the Senate before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.