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EPA rule disapproved: California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards… › Provision 1

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 and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty and Maintenance Provisions; Advanced Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport Shuttle; Zero-Emission Power Train Certification; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision”

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What this chapter is about

This law kills a rule. The EPA made the rule. It was about truck rules in California. The rule no longer applies.

1 proposal indexed from this chapter.

The document says “shall notWho acts: CongressHow: statute 1 in the PDF
What the document says

“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty and Maintenance Provisions; Advanced Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport Shuttle; Zero- Emission Power Train Certification; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision" (88 Fed. Reg. 20688 (April 6, 2023)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”

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 and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty and Maintenance Provisions; Advanced Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport Shuttle; Zero-Emission Power Train Certification; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision”,  1

A resolution of disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5 of the United States Code, the Congressional Review Act. It names the rule by the title the agency gave it and by where the rule was published, and it states no reason. What the rule itself required is not described here, because that rule is not one of the documents this site has indexed.

What the document actually says

“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty and Maintenance Provisions; Advanced Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport Shuttle; Zero- Emission Power Train Certification; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision" (88 Fed. Reg. 20688 (April 6, 2023)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”

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 and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty and Maintenance Provisions; Advanced Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport Shuttle; Zero-Emission Power Train Certification; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision”,  1
That sentence, in plain words

Congress votes down a rule about truck rules in California. The rule now has no force.

What this is about

The EPA wrote a rule about truck rules in California. Congress voted to undo it. The rule is dead. It binds no one now. Congress used a law that lets it undo a new rule within a set time.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

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  1. The document itself

    EPA rule disapproved: California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards…, Public Law 119-15, sec. 1, 139 Stat. 65 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ15/html/PLAW-119publ15.htm

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    “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 and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty and Maintenance Provisions; Advanced Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport Shuttle; Zero-Emission Power Train Certification; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision”,” EPA rule disapproved: California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards…, provision 1. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/pl-119-15/provision-1/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

Cite the document when the claim is about what the document says. Cite this page when the indexing, the wording or the record of what has happened is what is being relied on.

What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The one thing the resolution does: it names a rule and deprives it of force.

The rule being disapproved. It is an agency rule published in the Federal Register, not this law, and it is named here rather than summarized.

The resolution gives no reason for the disapproval, so none is recorded. Members' reasons, where they gave any, are in their floor remarks rather than in the law.