13. Environmental Protection Agency · Major · Needs Congress
Return the air standard-setting role to Congress
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Printed page 425 13. Environmental Protection Agency
“If possible, return the standard-setting role to Congress.”
What has happened
- Not started
No bill in the 119th Congress would move National Ambient Air Quality Standard-setting from EPA to Congress, and no administration request to that effect was found. EPA's own reconsideration of the 2024 PM2.5 NAAQS (announced 2025-03-12) keeps the role at the agency.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search (2026-08-27): titles of the congress.gov bills we keep and search, matching “Clean Air Act”, “ambient air”, “air quality standard” — only CRA resolutions, an RVP ethanol-waiver bill (H.R. 1346) and a House rule for H.R. 6387 (Clean Air Act permitting revisions), none transferring standard-setting. Federal Register full-text “national ambient air quality standards” reconsideration since 2025-01-20: routine SIP actions and EPA’s own NAAQS work. White House presidential actions among those records: nothing on air standards. H.R. 6387 (govinfo BILLS-119hr6387, not read) is a lead only if its text reaches NAAQS; the House rule’s title suggests permitting.
- Action
- transfer
- Object
- air quality standard-setting role
- ID
- 1075