Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
The bill prohibits the EPA Administrator from using any assessment produced by the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program as a basis to develop, finalize, or issue rules or regulations, to carry out regulatory, enforcement, or permitting actions, or to inform air toxics assessments, mapping, or screening tools.
Progressives emphasize public-health harms from blocking IRIS.
Narrow, administratively focused bills often advance in the House, but controversy over science/regulation raises opposition risk.
The bill prohibits the EPA Administrator from using any assessment produced by the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program as a basis to develop, finalize, or issue rules or regulations, to carry out regulatory, enforcement, or permitting actions, or to inform air toxics assessments, mapping, or screening tools.
Narrow and administratively focused but ideologically charged and lacking compromise features, reducing cross-chamber and cross-branch appeal.
How solid the drafting looks.
Progressives emphasize public-health harms from blocking IRIS.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize public-health harms from blocking IRIS.
Likely to view the bill as a rollback of an EPA scientific tool that supports health-based regulation.
They will argue it undermines public-health protections by barring use of agency risk assessments in rulemaking and enforcement.
Will have mixed views: sympathetic to concerns about scientific rigor and legal defensibility, but worried about public-health gaps.
They will weigh procedural improvements against the risk of regulatory paralysis.
Likely to view the bill favorably as a constraint on EPA regulatory power and as a measure to prevent agency reliance on possibly over-conservative internal assessments.
They will frame it as reducing regulatory burden on industry.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Narrow and administratively focused but ideologically charged and lacking compromise features, reducing cross-chamber and cross-branch appeal.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize public-health harms from blocking IRIS.
Narrow and administratively focused but ideologically charged and lacking compromise features, reducing cross-chamber and cross-branch appe…
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