Freedom to Haul Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 990 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 990

  To prohibit the enforcement of a rule with respect to emissions, to 
  amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not 
 limit the availability of new motor vehicles, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 12, 2025

  Mr. Sullivan (for himself, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Mullin, Mr. 
 Budd, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Daines, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Risch, 
 Mr. Cramer, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Justice, 
 and Mr. Lee) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the enforcement of a rule with respect to emissions, to 
  amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not 
 limit the availability of new motor vehicles, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Freedom to Haul Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST IMPLEMENTING OR ENFORCING PHASE 3 EMISSION 
              RULES.

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not 
implement or enforce the final rule of the Environmental Protection 
Agency entitled ``Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty 
Vehicles--Phase 3'' (89 Fed. Reg. 29440 (April 22, 2024)).

SEC. 3. ENSURING TAILPIPE REGULATIONS DO NOT LIMIT THE AVAILABILITY OF 
              NEW MOTOR VEHICLES.

    (a) In General.--Section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7521(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(2) Any regulation'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(2)(A) Any regulation''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(B) Any regulation, including a revision to a regulation, 
        prescribed under paragraph (1), including any regulation 
        prescribed after January 1, 2021, and any regulation proposed 
        after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, shall not--
                    ``(i) mandate the use of any specific technology; 
                or
                    ``(ii) result in limited availability of new motor 
                vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine 
                in that new motor vehicle.''.
    (b) Necessary Revisions to Regulations.--Not later than 2 years 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency shall promulgate such revisions to 
regulations as may be necessary to conform those regulations to 
subparagraph (B) of section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7521(a)(2)) (as added by subsection (a)(2)).
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