Environmental Health Restoration Act of 2026

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Introduced 2026-09-16Topic: environment

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This bill would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to bring back, within 60 days, the rules, guidance, and enforcement programs in effect on January 19, 2025, for power plant greenhouse gases, oil and gas methane, mercury and air toxics, hazardous air pollutants, greenhouse gas reporting, fine particle air quality standards, and vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. It would bar the President, the EPA, and other federal officials from delaying, repealing, weakening, or exempting those rules unless Congress explicitly authorizes it. The bill would require the EPA to rebuild its science advisory boards without members tied to regulated industries, base decisions on peer-reviewed science, and use a social cost of carbon of $190 per metric ton. It would also restore environmental justice programs, require public health impact assessments, authorize about $11 billion per year for the EPA, and let people sue in federal court if the EPA does not comply.

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Action history

Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2026-09-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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
2026-09-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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
2026-09-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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
2026-09-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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
2026-09-16		Introduced in House	introduce
2026-09-16		Introduced in House	introduce

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