Led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, almost all Senate Republicans are uniting behind a measure to scrap EPA’s recently strengthened soot standard.
Via a Congressional Review Act disapproval resolution introduced Thursday, McConnell would repeal the tighter annual exposure limit unveiled last month.
In Senate floor remarks, McConnell labeled the limit — which EPA predicts will save thousands of lives — “another job-killing mandate that would impose more unilateral economic pain at home.”
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EPA’s approach, he added, “goes well beyond the regulatory standards of most of our European allies, let alone our top strategic competitor, China.”
