WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representative Andrew Clyde (GA-09) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the End EPA Abuse Act, legislation to amend the Clean Air Act to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from abusing its regulatory authority.

Rep. Clyde, Sen. Lee Introduce End EPA Abuse Act

Washington, June 25, 2026

“Under the Biden Administration, the EPA increasingly treated the Clean Air Act as a blank check to push de facto electric vehicle mandates, jeopardize reliable energy sources, and impose costly regulations on American consumers and businesses,” said Clyde. “Unelected Washington bureaucrats should never have the power to dictate what kind of car Americans drive or how our country produces electricity. The End EPA Abuse Act puts Congress back in the driver's seat where it belongs, preventing any future Democrat Administration from abusing the EPA’s regulatory authority to advance the Left’s radical, anti-American energy agenda.”

“The EPA has overstepped its authority as far as possible to put America’s energy producers in a chokehold,” said Lee. “They’ve exploited any power they can grab to push Biden and Obama’s climate psychosis at the expense of our energy security. They make up and enforce regulations to suffocate America’s energy producers and devastate major sectors of our economy. The End EPA Abuse Act will clarify once and for all that policymaking belongs to Congress, whom the American people have elected – not to the leftwing bureaucracy.” 

The End EPA Abuse Act is supported by the American Energy Institute, American Consumer Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Frontiers of Freedom Institute, Eagle Forum, Less Government, the Heartland Institute, Center for a Free Economy, American Energy Alliance, Truth in Energy and Climate, the John Locke Foundation, Center for Energy and Conservation at Independent Women’s Voice, and Heritage Action.

“The EPA is supposed to be focused on environmental protection, not on trying to stretch the Clean Air Act to change the very nature of our economy. Yet this is exactly what has been happening in recent years. Not long ago, people would have been thought of as wacky if they claimed the EPA would try to use the Clean Air Act to kill off gas-powered cars or try and change how the country produces electricity. But this is exactly what the agency has been doing,” said CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Director and Senior Fellow Daren Bakst.

“The End EPA Abuse Act establishes much-needed guardrails on the EPA. The bill is a means by which Congress would be reasserting its power while still allowing the EPA to do its job to protect the environment. The only thing the bill prohibits is the greatest abuses that common sense tells us Congress never authorized in the first place. Sen. Lee and Rep. Clyde should be commended for introducing this critical reform bill,” Bakst added.

The End EPA Abuse Act also received a letter of support from 20 state Attorneys General, led by West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey.

The End EPA Abuse Act amends Section 301 of the Clean Air Act to prevent regulatory overreach by:

• Prohibiting regulations or waivers that could expand the EPA’s authority beyond congressional intent.
• Blocking the EPA from restricting the sale or use of any vehicle or engine, including new internal combustion engine vehicles.
• Preventing rules that require fuel-switching at power plants or force abandonment of coal or natural gas.
• Stopping regulations that reduce grid reliability or jeopardize dependable energy supply.
• Prohibiting mandates requiring unavailable, cost-prohibitive, or technically infeasible technologies, including those viable only with subsidies.

THE BILL:

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To amend the Clean Air Act to preserve consumer vehicle choice, protect the electric grid, and impose limits on regulations under that Act, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. CLYDE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee

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A BILL

To amend the Clean Air Act to preserve consumer vehicle choice, protect the electric grid, and impose limits on regulations under that Act, and for other purposes.

119TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1.

SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘End EPA Abuse Act of 2026’’.

SEC. 2. ADMINISTRATION.

Section 301 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7601) is amended—

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GUSNOTE: ONE HAS TO ASK ON WHAT PLANET ANDREW CLYDE LIVES... I HOPE IT'S NOT THIS LOVELY LITTLE EARTH WHICH IS BECOMING IN NEED OF MORE CARE BY THE MINUTE...

BY CARE, WE MEAN STOP POLLUTING THE ATMOSPHERE, STOP WARMING THE ATMOSPHERE BY BURNING FOSSIL FUELS — AND REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF RUBBISH AND DANGEROUS CHEMICALS THAT END UP IN LANDFILLS AND THE OCEANS.

EASY. IT'S A COMMON SENSE INTUITIVE INTELLIGENT THING TO DO...

BUT NO....

SOME ANTI-SCIENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING WEBSITES INTRODUCE A COUPLE OF COMPARATIVE CHARTS THAT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS WHY-NOT BURN THE FOSSIL FUELS BECAUSE WHAT'S THE DIFF?

PAY ATTENTION:

THIS CHART SHOWS THE WARMING SINCE 1880.... NO DISPUTE BY MOST DENIALISTS HERE.....

IN 1897, SVANTE ARRHENIUS PREDICTED AN INCREASE OF 2 DEGREES CELSIUS WITH THE AMOUNT OF CO2 PUMPED BY THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BETWEEN 1850 AND 1900, BUT HE DOES NOT SAY WHEN.

ANYONE WITH AN ELASTIC BRAIN KNOWS THAT CAUSE AND EFFECT USUALLY EXPERIENCES DELAYS. SAY FOR EXAMPLE EPOXY AND CEMENT TAKE TIME TO BECOME SOLID. IT'S A PROCESS. EVEN A BOMB EXPLODES WITH A CAUSE TO EFFECT — ALBEIT IN A SHORT TIME. 

GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT INSTANT. THERE ARE MANY FUNCTIONS OF ABSORPTION AND DISSIPATION OF HEAT, INCLUDING THE MELTING OF ICE, WHICH HIDE THE COMBINED PROCESS. SO LOOKING AT THE CHART PROVIDED BY THE DENIALISTS, THE PRESENT WARMING IS SOMEWHAT VERY VERY SMALL — INSIGNIFICANT.... SEE BELOW:

BELOW IS GUS's ALTERED TIMELINE THAT INCLUDES THE BIG MELT:

IF YOU DON'T SEE AN "IMPORTANT" CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING, YOU ARE ONE OF the American Energy Institute, American Consumer Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Frontiers of Freedom Institute, Eagle Forum, Less Government, the Heartland Institute, Center for a Free Economy, American Energy Alliance, Truth in Energy and Climate, the John Locke Foundation, Center for Energy and Conservation at Independent Women’s Voice, and Heritage Action's LOONIES. FRUIT FLIES ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU.....

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