Environmental Health Restoration Act of 2026

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Introduced 2026-09-17Topic: environment

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This bill would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to bring back, within 60 days, the air pollution rules, guidance, and enforcement programs that were in effect on January 19, 2025, covering power plant greenhouse gases, oil and gas methane, mercury and air toxics, greenhouse gas reporting, fine particle air quality standards, and vehicle emissions. It would bar the President and federal officials from delaying, weakening, or repealing those rules unless Congress authorizes it. The EPA would have to rebuild its science advisory panels without members tied to regulated industries, use a social cost of carbon of $190 per metric ton, and restore environmental justice programs. The bill authorizes about $11 billion per year for the EPA starting in 2027, requires yearly enforcement reports, and lets people affected by EPA's failure to follow the law sue in federal court.

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Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2026-09-17	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-09-17	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-09-17	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-09-17	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-09-17	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-09-17		Introduced in House	introduce
2026-09-17		Introduced in House	introduce

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