EPA can no longer review bills before they become law.
H.R. 6398 — Reducing and Eliminating Duplicative Environmental Regulations Act · Filed by John Joyce (R-PA) · Introduced Dec 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill removes the EPA's power to review bills and big projects. The EPA can no longer comment on new laws before they pass. Right now, the EPA can say if a bill might hurt air. After this bill, the EPA cannot do that review.
Who it affects
People lose a formal way to get review before new laws take effect. The EPA can no longer give comments on bills and projects that might hurt air.
One thing to notice
The EPA's review of bills before they pass is removed. Bills with big air-harm effects could advance without the EPA's review.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Dec 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Dec 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment”
- Dec 10, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jan 21, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 22”
- Apr 16, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 222 - 205 (Roll no. 118)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
15 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 19 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $63,652,324 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 29 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 95% of bills with any report.
John Joyce, who sponsored the bill, received $1,442,437 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $54,660,000 in 3 reports
- American Petroleum Institute — $4,700,000 in 2 reports
- American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers — $1,160,000 in 1 report
- National Mining Association — $820,000 in 1 report
- American Forest & Paper Association — $710,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- EPA — The agency that protects air, water, and land.
- review — To look at and check something carefully before it is final.
- comment — To give official thoughts or concerns about something.
- 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 (826 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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