Overturns a 2024 EPA rule on hazardous air pollution limits for reclassified facilities

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This law uses the Congressional Review Act, which lets Congress cancel recent federal agency rules, to overturn a September 2024 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule on facilities that change their classification under the Clean Air Act's hazardous air pollutant program.^2,3 The rule covered facilities moving from the major source category to the area source category, which has less strict emission standards, and required them to keep using certain pollution controls so their emissions would not rise above major source limits.^2,3 It also required sources of persistent and bioaccumulative hazardous air pollutants, which last a long time in the environment and build up in living things, to keep meeting certain major source standards after reclassifying, and the law removes these requirements.^2,3

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