Environmental Health Restoration Act of 2026

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, for power plants, oil and gas methane, mercury and air toxics, greenhouse gas reporting, fine particle pollution, and vehicle emissions. It would bar the President and federal officials from delaying, weakening, or repealing those rules unless Congress passes a law allowing it. The EPA would have to rebuild its science advisory boards without members tied to regulated industries, use a social cost of carbon of $190 per metric ton, restore environmental justice programs, and publish health impact assessments and yearly reports. The bill authorizes about $11 billion per year for the EPA starting in fiscal year 2027 and lets people harmed by the EPA's failure to follow the law sue in federal court.

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Sponsors

• Sheldon Whitehouse Democrat sponsor
• 2 cosponsors