Title: Clean Air, Healthy Kids Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Clean Air, Healthy Kids Act
This bill reinstates a variety of rules regarding climate change that were repealed, suspended, delayed, withdrawn, or replaced and prohibits the implementation of certain policies and proposed rules.
Specifically, the bill nullifies Executive Order 13783 titled Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth.
In addition, the bill nullifies the following rules:
The bill prohibits agencies from finalizing the following proposed rules:
Finally, the bill nullifies a rescission of a waiver granted to California to enforce standards, which are more stringent than federal standards, for air pollution emissions from vehicles.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2505 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2505

 To provide that Executive Order 13783 and certain rules shall have no 
                force or effect, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 18, 2019

  Mr. Bennet (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Booker, Mr. Udall, Ms. 
Klobuchar, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Reed, Mr. Durbin, 
    Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
Heinrich, Mr. Van Hollen, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Harris, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
Menendez, and Mr. Leahy) introduced the following bill; which was read 
  twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that Executive Order 13783 and certain rules shall have no 
                force or effect, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Clean Air, Healthy Kids Act''.

SEC. 2. EXECUTIVE ORDER, FINAL RULES, AND PROPOSED RULES TO HAVE NO 
              FORCE OR EFFECT.

    (a) Executive Order.--Executive Order 13783 (42 U.S.C. 13201 note; 
relating to promoting energy independence and economic growth)--
            (1) is null and void;
            (2) shall have no force or effect; and
            (3) may not be implemented, administered, enforced, or 
        carried out by any Federal agency, including--
                    (A) the Office of Management and Budget;
                    (B) the Council of Economic Advisers;
                    (C) the Council on Environmental Quality;
                    (D) the Environmental Protection Agency;
                    (E) the Department of the Interior; and
                    (F) any other agency directed to implement the 
                Executive order.
    (b) Federal Rules.--
            (1) Final rules.--
                    (A) In general.--On and after the date of enactment 
                of this Act, the following rules are null and void:
                            (i) The final rule issued by the 
                        Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
                        Agency entitled ``Repeal of the Clean Power 
                        Plan; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas 
                        Emissions From Existing Electric Utility 
                        Generating Units; Revisions to Emission 
                        Guidelines Implementing Regulations'' (84 Fed. 
                        Reg. 32520 (July 8, 2019)).
                            (ii) The final rule issued by the Director 
                        of the Bureau of Land Management entitled 
                        ``Waste Prevention, Production Subject to 
                        Royalties, and Resource Conservation; Delay and 
                        Suspension of Certain Requirements'' (82 Fed. 
                        Reg. 58050 (December 8, 2017)).
                            (iii) The final rule of the Secretary of 
                        Energy entitled ``Energy Conservation Program: 
                        Definition for General Service Lamps'' (84 Fed. 
                        Reg. 46661 (September 5, 2019)).
                            (iv) The final rule of the Administrator of 
                        the Environmental Protection Agency entitled 
                        ``Adopting Requirements in Emission Guidelines 
                        for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills'' (84 Fed. 
                        Reg. 44547 (August 26, 2019)).
                    (B) Effect.--On and after the date of enactment of 
                this Act, the portions of the Code of Federal 
                Regulations amended by the rules described in 
                subparagraph (A) shall be in effect as if the 
                amendments made by those rules had not been made.
            (2) Proposed rules.--The applicable agency may not finalize 
        the following rules:
                    (A) The proposed rule issued by the Administrator 
                of the Environmental Protection Agency entitled ``Oil 
                and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, 
                Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review'' (August 
                28, 2019).
                    (B) The proposed rule issued by the Administrator 
                of the Environmental Protection Agency and the 
                Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety 
                Administration entitled ``The Safer Affordable Fuel-
                Efficient (SAFE) Vehicle Rules for Model Years 2021-
                2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks'' (83 Fed. Reg. 
                42986 (August 24, 2018)).
                    (C) The proposed determination of the Secretary of 
                Energy entitled ``Energy Conservation Program: Energy 
                Conservation Standards for General Service Incandescent 
                Lamps'' (84 Fed. Reg. 46830 (September 5, 2019)).
    (c) Clean Air Act Waivers.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law--
            (1) any rescission of a waiver granted to the State of 
        California to enforce emissions standards under the Clean Air 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.)--
                    (A) is null and void; and
                    (B) shall have no force or effect; and
            (2) on and after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
        Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not 
        rescind a waiver granted to the State of California to enforce 
        emissions standards under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et 
        seq.).

SEC. 3. NO FEDERAL FUNDS AVAILABLE.

    No Federal funds made available for any fiscal year may be used to 
implement, administer, enforce, or carry out--
            (1) the Executive order described in section 2(a);
            (2) a final rule or direct final rule described in section 
        2(b)(1)(A);
            (3) a proposed rule or a proposed determination described 
        in section 2(b)(2); or
            (4) a rescission of a waiver described in section 2(c).

SEC. 4. SAVINGS PROVISION.

    Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair any authority 
granted to the President.
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