Congress votes to strip air-pollution rules from tire factories
S.J.Res. 24 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing". · Filed by Tim Scott (R-SC) · 9 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 25, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This joint resolution would block an EPA rule that sets air-pollution standards for rubber tire manufacturing facilities. If passed, the rule—which was published in November 2024—would be nullified and have no legal effect, allowing tire manufacturers to operate under less stringent hazardous-air-pollutant controls.
Why we flagged it
This is a straightforward Congressional Review Act (CRA) disapproval resolution targeting a specific EPA air-quality rule. It uses the CRA's one-sentence procedural mechanism to nullify a regulation without substantive legislative language, making it a pure deregulatory instrument.
What the text implies
- Disapproval under the CRA triggers a statutory bar: the EPA cannot issue a substantially similar rule without new congressional authorization, effectively locking in deregulation for the remainder of this Congress and potentially beyond.
- Communities near tire manufacturing plants—often lower-income and communities of color—lose enforceable air-quality protections without any public process to weigh local health impacts.
- The rule being disapproved had likely undergone notice-and-comment rulemaking; this resolution bypasses that deliberative process and replaces it with a simple majority vote.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Ordinary citizens, particularly those living near tire manufacturing facilities, lose air-quality protections and exposure limits for hazardous pollutants. The rule being voided was a regulatory floor protecting public health; its disapproval shifts risk to residents and workers without offsetting public benefit.
Who stands to gain
- tire manufacturers
- rubber processing companies
Named in the bill
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Senate, tire manufacturing industry, rubber tire manufacturers
Where it stands
9 cosponsors: 9 Republicans.
- Feb 25, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Feb 25, 2025 — 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 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $80,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 63 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Tim Scott, the sponsor, reported $214,300 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Sierra Club — $80,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,323 characters) on Jun 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 Dec 2025. 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 Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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