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A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units: Final Repeal".
This joint resolution blocks the removal of federal air pollution limits for coal- and oil-fired electricity plants. By overturning the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to repeal these standards, the bill ensures that power plants must continue to control and limit their emissions of toxic chemicals.
People affected—The text names a category (coal- and oil-fired power plants and the people exposed to their emissions) but no population count; a precise number is not determinable from the text provided.
Fiscal magnitude—no CBO estimate published
Reach55provisional — pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
The provisions, in plain language.
Cancels an EPA action that had erased the toxic-air-pollution limits on coal- and oil-fired power plants. Because that EPA action is voided, those existing limits on hazardous air pollutants stay in force and the plants must keep meeting them.
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- people living near coal- and oil-fired power plantsPreserves the limits on hazardous air pollutants from these plants, so the protections against that toxic air exposure remain in effect instead of being removed.
Who it burdens
- operators of coal- and oil-fired power plantsKeeps the existing toxic-air-pollutant emission limits legally in force, so these plants must continue meeting (and bearing the cost of) those standards rather than being freed from them.
What this bill touches.
Energy sources+25Pollution & development+60Regulation (cross-sector)+50