Resolution to Overturn EPA Air Pollution Rule for Indiana
June 27, 2025
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The Frame
This resolution would immediately cancel an EPA regulation governing how much air pollution power plants and industrial facilities in Indiana are permitted to emit, potentially changing compliance requirements for those facilities.
Potentially affected actors named in the source documents. Mention is not a position.
Industrial facilities in Indiana
These entities are subject to the emissions budgets and allowance allocations set by the EPA rule.
Environmental Protection Agency
The agency's regulatory action would be nullified if the resolution is enacted.
Last recorded activity June 27, 2025.
Introduced.
Summary
Key Facts
- The resolution formally disapproves the EPA rule titled 'Emissions Budget and Allowance Allocations for Indiana Under the Revised Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Update'.
- The rule being challenged was published in the Federal Register on May 20, 2025 (90 Fed. Reg. 21423).
- If enacted, the resolution would render the EPA rule to have no force or effect.
- The resolution is introduced under the authority of Chapter 8 of Title 5, United States Code, which allows Congress to review and overturn agency rules.
- The resolution was introduced in the Senate on June 27, 2025.
- The resolution has been referred to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Why It Matters
This resolution would immediately cancel an EPA regulation governing how much air pollution power plants and industrial facilities in Indiana are permitted to emit, potentially changing compliance requirements for those facilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Voting Record
Total
98
Yes
47
No
51
Present
0
Not Voting
0
Abstain
0
How they voted (98)
John Kennedy
R · no
Tommy Tuberville
R · no
Jim Banks
R · no
Maggie Hassan
D · yes
Ruben Gallego
D · yes
Roger Wicker
R · no
Mike Crapo
R · no
Elizabeth Warren
D · yes
Sheldon Whitehouse
D · yes
Richard Blumenthal
D · yes
Kevin Cramer
R · no
Lindsey Graham
R · no
Jon Husted
R · no
Thomas Tillis
R · no
Chris Van Hollen
D · yes
John Reed
D · yes
Christopher Murphy
D · yes
John Barrasso
R · no
Roger Marshall
R · no
Lisa Blunt Rochester
D · yes
Chuck Grassley
R · no
Christopher Coons
D · yes
Tina Smith
D · yes
Peter Welch
D · yes
+ 74 more
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Discoveries
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Use of Congressional Review Act
The resolution utilizes the Congressional Review Act to target a specific state-level implementation of a broader federal air pollution rule.
Connected Entities
Sources
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Analysis Score
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