Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA), in collaboration with Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), is introducing the End EPA Abuse Act, legislation designed to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from abusing its regulatory authority.
What does this bill do? The bill reins in the EPA by amending the Clean Air Act with provisions to keep the agency from regulating beyond congressional intent.
What lawmakers are saying:
- Rep. Andrew Clyde: “Under the Biden Administration, the EPA increasingly treated the Clean Air Act as a blank check to push de facto electric vehicle mandates, jeopardize reliable energy sources, and impose costly regulations on American consumers and businesses.”
- Continued: “Unelected Washington bureaucrats should never have the power to dictate what kind of car Americans drive or how our country produces electricity. The End EPA Abuse Act puts Congress back in the driver's seat where it belongs, preventing any future Democrat Administration from abusing the EPA’s regulatory authority to advance the Left’s radical, anti-American energy agenda.”
- Sen. Lee: “The EPA has overstepped its authority as far as possible to put America’s energy producers in a chokehold. They’ve exploited any power they can grab to push Biden and Obama’s climate psychosis at the expense of our energy security. They make up and enforce regulations to suffocate America’s energy producers and devastate major sectors of our economy. The End EPA Abuse Act will clarify once and for all that policymaking belongs to Congress, whom the American people have elected, not to the left-wing bureaucracy.”
Context: The bill specifically amends Section 301 of the Clean Air Act and prohibits regulations or waivers that could expand the EPA’s authority beyond congressional intent.
The bill also prohibits mandates for unavailable, cost-prohibitive, or technically infeasible technologies, including those viable only with subsidies.
The End EPA Abuse Act has earned the support of the American Energy Institute, American Consumer Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Frontiers of Freedom Institute, Eagle Forum, Less Government, the Heartland Institute, Center for a Free Economy, American Energy Alliance, Truth in Energy and Climate, and the John Locke Foundation.
