S.J.Res. 206Senate119th Congress (2025-2027)In Committee

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 Pollution Control Standards; Notice of Decision Granting a Waiver of Clean Air Act Preemption for California's 2009 and Subsequent Model Year Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for New Motor Vehicles".

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This joint resolution uses the congressional‑disapproval authority in the Administrative Procedure Act to overturn an EPA decision that allowed California to adopt its own, stricter greenhouse‑gas standards for new cars starting with the 2009 model year. By rejecting the rule, the resolution would prevent California’s waiver from taking effect, keeping the federal emissions standards in place for all new vehicles nationwide.

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Congress formally disapproves the EPA’s rule that granted California a waiver to set its own greenhouse‑gas emission standards for 2009‑model‑year and later new motor vehicles.
The disapproval makes that EPA rule have no legal effect.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Environment and Public Works Committee

August 5, 2026

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119th CONGRESS

2d Session

S. J. RES. 206

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

August 5, 2026

Mr. Schmitt (for himself, Mr. Ricketts, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Husted, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Barrasso, Mrs. Fischer, and Mr. Moreno) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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 Pollution Control Standards; Notice of Decision Granting a Waiver of Clean Air Act Preemption for California's 2009 and Subsequent Model Year Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for New Motor Vehicles.

That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to California State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Standards; Notice of Decision Granting a Waiver of Clean Air Act Preemption for California's 2009 and Subsequent Model Year Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for New Motor Vehicles (74 Fed. Reg. 32744 (July 8, 2009)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.