Introduced in Senate — S. 990

119th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 990

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 12, 2025

Mr. Sullivan (for himself, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Budd, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Daines, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Risch, Mr. Cramer, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Justice, and Mr. Lee) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

A BILL

To prohibit the enforcement of a rule with respect to emissions, to amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new motor vehicles, and for other purposes.

Section 1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Freedom to Haul Act of 2025.

Sec. 2. Prohibition against implementing or enforcing phase 3 emission rules

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not implement or enforce the final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency entitled Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles—Phase 3 (89 Fed. Reg. 29440 (April 22, 2024)).

Sec. 3. Ensuring tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new motor vehicles

(a) In general

Section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521(a)(2)) is amended—

(1)

by striking (2) Any regulation and inserting the following:

(2)
(A)
Any regulation; and

(2)

by adding at the end the following:

(B)
Any regulation, including a revision to a regulation, prescribed under paragraph (1), including any regulation prescribed after January 1, 2021, and any regulation proposed after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, shall not—
(i)
mandate the use of any specific technology; or
(ii)
result in limited availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in that new motor vehicle.

(b) Necessary revisions to regulations

Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall promulgate such revisions to regulations as may be necessary to conform those regulations to subparagraph (B) of section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521(a)(2)) (as added by subsection (a)(2)).