House Committee Approves EPA Limitation Bill
Task force will examine whether to delay EPA’s proposal on new emissions and fuel standards
The House Energy & Commerce Committee last week approved a bill that will create a new task force to study the overall impact of three pending EPA rules, but not before Democrats on the committee called for more study of the bill’s impact.
The three rules which would be required to be studied by the task force include delay of EPA’s proposal on new emissions and fuel standards and the agency’s ozone air quality standards.
The bill would overturn a Supreme Court decision upholding EPA’s need to only consider health concerns when promulgating air quality rules, with the agency now having to consider economic costs and feasibility of its proposed air rules.
Republicans said the new bill is necessary because the Supreme Court decision, while upholding EPA authority, said the agency’s authority on air quality regulations is ambiguous.
