SJRES 76 — Congress 119
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Extension of Deadlines in Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review Final Rule".
Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/76
Congress.gov subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures; Climate change and greenhouse gases; Congressional oversight; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Oil and gas; Environmental Protection
Issues impacted: Regulation & Agency Oversight (ai, high), Energy & Climate (taxonomy, high)
Official bill text (stored)
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119 SJ 76 IS: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Extension of Deadlines in Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review Final Rule”. U.S. Senate 2025-09-04 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. IIA 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. J. RES. 76 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 4, 2025 Mr. Schiff (for himself and Mr. Whitehouse ) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to Extension of Deadlines in Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review Final Rule . That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to Extension of Deadlines in Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review Final Rule (90 Fed. Reg. 35966 (July 31, 2025)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.
Plain-English summary
Confidence: high · Complexity: moderate · Model: grok-4.5
This is Congress’s way of trying to kill a fresh EPA rule with a special fast-track tool called the Congressional Review Act—basically a quick veto that can wipe a regulation off the books like it never existed.
The rule in question, from July 2025, gave oil and natural gas outfits more time to meet climate-related pollution standards. That covers new sites, rebuilt ones, modified ones, and older existing facilities. If this joint resolution became law, the extra time would disappear and the earlier deadlines would snap back into place.
Oil and gas operators who’d already planned around the delay would feel it most. States that have to run the emissions guidelines would notice too, along with anyone watching methane and greenhouse-gas rules in that sector. Everyday people wouldn’t see a direct change in their bills or daily life, but the compliance calendar for those facilities would tighten again.
A move to even take it up already failed in the Senate 46–51, so it didn’t go anywhere from there.
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| Issue | Yea advances | Nay advances | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy & Climate | Accelerate clean-energy transition | Status quo / reject this change | Yea nullifies EPA’s extension of oil-and-gas climate/emissions compliance deadlines, restoring earlier timelines; Nay keeps the extension rule in effect. |
| Regulation & Agency Oversight | Disapprove or nullify agency rules | Preserve agency rules and standards | Classic CRA joint resolution: Yea strips the named EPA rule of force and effect; Nay leaves the published rule standing. |