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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions”

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What this chapter is about

This law kills a rule. The EPA made the rule. It was about a fee on wasted gas. The rule no longer applies.

1 proposal indexed from this chapter.

The document says “shall not”Who acts: CongressHow: statute 1 in the PDF
What the document says

“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions" (89 Fed. Reg. 91094 (November 18, 2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions”,  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 "Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions" (89 Fed. Reg. 91094 (November 18, 2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions”,  1
That sentence, in plain words

Congress votes down a rule about a fee on wasted gas. The rule now has no force.

What this is about

The EPA wrote a rule about a fee on wasted gas. 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.

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  1. The document itself

    EPA rule disapproved: Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for…, Public Law 119-2, sec. 1, 139 Stat. 7 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ2/html/PLAW-119publ2.htm

  2. This page

    “Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions”,” EPA rule disapproved: Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for…, provision 1. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/pl-119-2/provision-1/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).

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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.