Bill lets small oil refineries skip most renewable fuel rules.
H.R. 1346 — To amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes. · Filed by Adrian Smith (R-NE) · 55 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill changes the Clean Air Act. Small oil refineries can skip 75% of renewable fuel rules starting in 2028. E15 ethanol fuel can be sold year-round in more places. Small refineries can ask to skip all rules if they might close. The bill gives back renewable fuel credits to some small refineries from 2016 to 2018.
Who it affects
Small oil refineries get big cost breaks. Ethanol makers and fuel sellers may sell more E15 fuel. Gas station owners must update pumps and tanks to sell E15.
One thing to notice
The bill cuts renewable fuel rules for small refineries. It does not say who has to follow those rules instead.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
55 cosponsors: 37 Republicans, 18 Democrats.
- Feb 13, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 13, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
- May 13, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 203 (Roll no. 164).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
51 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 66 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $22,589,606 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 5 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 99% of bills with any report.
Adrian Smith, who sponsored the bill, received $1,478,750 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Petroleum Institute — $4,700,000 in 2 reports
- Koch Government Affairs, LLC — $2,760,000 in 1 report
- Growth Energy Inc — $2,170,000 in 3 reports
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc. — $1,670,000 in 1 report
- Phillips 66 — $1,320,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- renewable fuel — Fuel made from plants or waste, not oil. Ethanol is one type.
- E15 ethanol fuel — Gasoline mixed with 15% ethanol fuel from corn or other plants.
- renewable fuel credits — Proof that a refinery blended renewable fuel. Credits can be bought and sold.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (13,600 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,939 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 25, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-06.
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