The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released its portion of Republicans’ party-line reconciliation bill Wednesday, largely concurring with the House’s plans to repeal environmental regulations and billions of dollars of unobligated funding from Democrats’ 2022 climate law.
The committee’s proposal comes as the Senate is racing to transform and ultimately pass the sweeping tax, energy and national security bill that the House approved last month.
EPW’s portion of the megabill mirrors much of what the House Energy and Commerce Committee proposed in its own text, save for some relatively minor changes and omissions, mainly due to jurisdictional differences between the chambers.
The text would gut climate and air pollution programs created by the Inflation Reduction Act, delay the implementation of Democrats’ methane pollution fee and implement a narrower repeal of EPA’s vehicle emissions rule.
