Findings

Congress finds that— (1) the Environmental Protection Agency was created to protect human health and the environment and is statutorily required to carry out and enforce the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) and other critically important environmental laws that protect public health; (2) since January 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency has initiated or advanced dozens of deregulatory actions weakening or dismantling protections governing power plants, vehicles, methane pollution, hazardous air pollutants, greenhouse gas reporting, and environmental justice programs; (3) the actions described in paragraph (2) include delays or repeals of standards addressing— (A) greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants; (B) methane and volatile organic compound pollution from oil and gas operations; (C) mercury and air toxics standards; (D) national ambient air quality standards under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) for particulate matter; (E) greenhouse gas reporting program requirements; and (F) vehicle emissions standards; (4) the Environmental Protection Agency has repealed the finding under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521(a)) that greenhouse gases may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare despite overwhelming scientific consensus, and, by that repeal, the Environmental Protection Agency has— (A) threatened the legal foundation for Federal limits on greenhouse gas pollution from vehicles, power plants, and industrial sources; and (B) undermined the core statutory obligation of the Environmental Protection Agency to protect human health and the environment; (5) the Environmental Protection Agency has further reduced enforcement activity, dismantled scientific advisory bodies, eliminated environmental justice programs, and ceased consideration of the social cost of carbon, undermining science-based policymaking and community protections; (6) the actions of the Environmental Protection Agency described in paragraphs (2) through (5) are contrary to existing law and congressional directives, including requirements under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.); (7) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) requires States to develop State implementation plans, and the actions of the Environmental Protection Agency to prevent States from implementing those plans and protecting the citizens of those States from public health harms are in direct conflict with the requirements of that Act; (8) States have a right to protect their citizens from environmental harms; (9) the actions described in this section threaten public health, accelerate climate change, expose communities to toxic pollution, and violate the statutory duties of the Environmental Protection Agency; and (10) Congress has both the authority and obligation to ensure that Federal agencies faithfully execute the law.