Bill stops EPA from making new car and power plant rules.
S. 4931 — End EPA Abuse Act of 2026 · Filed by Mike Lee (R-UT) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill changes the Clean Air Act. It blocks the EPA from writing new rules about vehicle sales and power plant fuel switching. It also blocks rules about electric grid reliability. It stops rules about technology that costs too much or does not exist yet. The bill does not erase rules the EPA already made.
Who it affects
Citizens would lose the chance to benefit from new EPA rules. Car makers, power plants, oil refineries, and coal plants would face fewer new EPA rules.
One thing to notice
The bill freezes future EPA rules in these areas. It does not erase rules already in place.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $140,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 40 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Mike Lee, who sponsored the bill, received $239,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Heritage Action for America — $140,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- EPA — The Environmental Protection Agency, a government office that makes rules to protect air, water, and land.
- Clean Air Act — A federal law that gives the EPA power to make rules about air pollution.
- electric grid reliability — Making sure the power system stays steady and does not break down.
- 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 (1,984 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 Jun 2026 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 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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