Gary Palmer (R-AL)
Providing 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".
A Republican resolution with no cosponsors
Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
In committee
Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.
The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- In Committee
What this bill would do
This joint resolution seeks to express congressional disapproval of a specific rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rule in question involves the "California State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Standards." Specifically, it concerns a notice of decision regarding a waiver of Clean Air Act preemption for California's greenhouse gas emission standards for new motor vehicles from the 2009 model year and later. If passed, the resolution dictates that the rule shall have no force or effect.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
- Nullification of the EPA Rule: By disapproving the rule, it would ensure the specific notice of decision regarding California's greenhouse gas emission standards has no force or effect.
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- Loss of California's Standards: Because the resolution aims to strike down the waiver of Clean Air Act preemption, the specific greenhouse gas emission standards for 2009 and subsequent model year new motor vehicles in California would no longer be in effect via this rule.
- 8/6/2026
- Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Introduced in House
2 bills Congress.gov lists as related to this one — companions in the other chamber, earlier versions, and bills this one absorbed or was folded into.
- 119-HJRES-202: Providing 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".
- 119-SJRES-206: 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".