# What This Bill Does

Congress is trying to block a new Environmental Protection Agency rule that sets pollution limits for rubber tire manufacturing plants. The EPA created this rule to reduce harmful air pollutants released during the tire-making process, but this bill would essentially erase it—making the rule have no legal effect whatsoever.

# Who This Affects and Why It Matters

If this bill passes, rubber tire manufacturers would no longer have to meet the EPA's new pollution standards. This means factories could continue operating under older, less strict rules. For people living near tire manufacturing plants, this could mean more hazardous air pollutants in their neighborhoods, potentially affecting air quality and public health. Workers at these facilities might also face greater exposure to dangerous chemicals. On the flip side, tire manufacturers argue that the new EPA standards are too costly and burdensome for their industry to comply with, so they support blocking this rule.

# How Congress Is Doing This

This bill uses a special congressional power that allows lawmakers to disapprove of new federal regulations. Rather than going through the normal legislative process to create a new law, Congress can use this faster procedure to reject rules they don't like. If both the House and Senate vote to approve this disapproval resolution, the EPA's tire manufacturing pollution rule would be canceled and couldn't be enforced. The bill was introduced in February 2025 and is currently being reviewed by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing".

Griffith, H. Morgan

This joint resolution nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency rule titled National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing (89 Fed. Reg. 94886) and published on November 29, 2024. The rule addresses the decision in Louisiana Environmental Action Network v. EPA (D.C. Cir. 2020) by implementing emissions standards for the rubber processing subcategory of the rubber tire manufacturing industry to ensure all emissions of hazardous air pollutants from sources in the source category are regulated.