9th District Cong. Andrew Clyde (R-Jackson County) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) have introduced legislaltion that amends the Clean Air Act to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from “abusing its regulatory authority.”
“Under the Biden Administration, the EPA increasingly treated the Clean Air Act as a blank check to push de facto electric vehicle mandates, jeopardize reliable energy sources, and impose costly regulations on American consumers and businesses,” Clyde said. “Unelected Washington bureaucrats should never have the power to dictate what kind of car Americans drive or how our country produces electricity. The End EPA Abuse Act puts Congress back in the driver’s seat where it belongs, preventing any future Democrat Administration from abusing the EPA’s regulatory authority to advance the Left’s radical, anti-American energy agenda.”
The legislation has the support of E 20 state Attorneys General, Clyde added, and would prevent “regulatory overreach” by:
- Prohibiting regulations or waivers that could expand the EPA’s authority beyond congressional intent.
- Blocking the EPA from restricting the sale or use of any vehicle or engine, including new internal combustion engine vehicles.
- Preventing rules that require fuel-switching at power plants or force abandonment of coal or natural gas.
- Stopping regulations that reduce grid reliability or jeopardize dependable energy supply.
- Prohibiting mandates requiring unavailable, cost-prohibitive, or technically infeasible technologies, including those viable only with subsidies.