2026年8月6日 美国东部时间早上6:00 / 福克斯新闻网
四名参议员利用《国会审查法》废除美国环保署关于车辆尾气和园林设备的两项裁决
作者：查尔斯·克莱茨 福克斯新闻网
独家首发福克斯新闻： 参议院共和党人正发起多线作战，直指他们所称的允许加州对全美境内车辆和设备排放标准施加过度影响力的法律框架，称此举将造成经济和消费者层面的后果。
共和党人辩称，加州已成为美国事实上的排放监管机构——制造商几乎不会为加州量身打造单独产品线，而是倾向于按照加州标准生产，这无形中形成了全国性的强制要求。
参议院环境与公共工程委员会（EPW）资深议员、怀俄明州共和党参议员辛西娅·勒米斯正与密苏里州共和党参议员埃里克·施密特、俄亥俄州共和党参议员乔恩·赫斯特德以及内布拉斯加州共和党参议员皮特·里基茨共同领导这项行动。他们指出，奥巴马和拜登政府时期根据《清洁空气法》授予加州的环保署豁免权，已将原本狭窄的环境例外条款转变为事实上的气候监管规则，推进加州全面的气候议程。
“加州的气候狂热分子长期以来一直在肆意践踏美国其他地区，”勒米斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
加州起诉特朗普政府环保署，反对将该州车辆排放豁免权纳入国会审查
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“在纽森州长的领导下，萨克拉门托方面认定他们有权 dictate 怀俄明州家庭的用车选择，以及我们小企业使用的设备。这种情况今天终于要结束了。”
去年，议员们成功废除了三项拜登政府时期的环保署豁免权，这些豁免权原本允许加州为卡车、轿车和巴士制定排放标准，共和党人称此举赋予了加州过度的监管控制权。周四的一揽子法案更进一步，针对他们所称的为这些现已废除的监管奠定法律基础的早期环保署裁决。
每项决议都利用《国会审查法》（CRA）废除一项不同的环保署豁免权。《国会审查法》赋予国会制衡机构行政权力的权力。
纽森、瓦尔茨敦促国会阻止这项“反气候”法案，称这是他们的“觉醒”十字军东征
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由于《国会审查法》禁止机构在未经国会新授权的情况下发布“实质相同”的规则，共和党人辩称，推翻这些豁免权将防止未来的政府简单地恢复它们——这直击了这类豁免条款的法律根基。
整体而言，这一揽子法案针对的是加州在汽油动力园林设备、乘用车排放标准、先进清洁汽车计划以及2009年最初环保署豁免权方面的权限，该豁免权允许萨克拉门托监管汽车的温室气体排放。
20世纪60年代，《清洁空气法》给予加州一项狭窄的豁免权，允许其申请比联邦标准更严格的排放规则环保署豁免权——但批评人士称，这项最初旨在解决洛杉矶严重烟雾问题的豁免权，已被武器化，迫使全美的制造业做出改变。
美国景观专业人士协会的高管安德鲁·布雷的会员企业受这些豁免权影响，依赖小型越野发动机。他表示，他支持向低排放设备负责任地过渡，但强调这必须来自“务实的创新”，而非政府强制命令。
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加利福尼亚州麦基特里克 — 11月3日： 2021年11月3日，在加利福尼亚州麦基特里克附近的贝里奇油田，抽油机正在运转。拜登政府昨日承诺削减石油和天然气生产中的甲烷排放。在加利福尼亚州，有3.5万口油气井处于闲置状态，其中许多未被封堵，可能会泄漏甲烷气体。科学家估计，三分之一的人为全球变暖由甲烷造成。（摄影：马里奥·塔马/盖蒂图片社）(马里奥·塔马)
“这项决议是在技术持续进步的同时，保障企业所需灵活性的关键一步，”布雷说道。美国高尔夫球场主管协会的迈克尔·李补充道，解决这一问题的方式应该是立法程序，而非带有“全国性后果”的州级强制命令。
领导这场斗争的四名议员在一份声明中表示，加州监管机构“早已放弃了应对当地空气质量的伪装，将豁免程序变成了向全美强加激进气候议程的后门……甚至没有经过国会的一次投票。”
勒米斯的决议将废除特朗普政府就职前一年即2025年授予的一项豁免权，她称该豁免权允许加州逐步淘汰链锯、 Leaf blower等汽油动力小型发动机。
这样一来，制造商将不再倾向于转型生产电动或零排放车型。
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位于麦基特里克的加州油田（左图）；美国的一家克莱斯勒工厂（右图）。（泰·赖特/盖蒂图片社；盖蒂图片社）
勒米斯的决议针对的是2025年的一项环保署豁免权，该豁免权允许加州逐步淘汰链锯、 leaf blower和割草机等新型汽油动力小型发动机。支持者表示，废除该豁免权将消除鼓励制造商将这些产品转向零排放技术的监管压力。
赫斯特德的决议针对的是2022年的一项环保署豁免权，该豁免权恢复了加州继续推行其先进清洁汽车计划的权力。
“当政策让日常生活成本更高、更不方便时，俄亥俄州民众不应被迫追随加州的脚步，”他周四告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
里基茨表示，这种情况证明，奥巴马-拜登时代的“过度监管和繁文缛节”仍在让内布拉斯加州人和全体美国民众损失数百万美元，他以该州庞大的农业产业为例，说明萨克拉门托监管政策的连锁反应。
欧洲“绿色意识形态”气候议程可能摧毁其工业，环境部长警告
“他们将加州政策作为电动汽车强制令的后门，甚至试图控制我们如何修剪草坪，”他说道。他的《国会审查法》决议针对的是一项奥巴马时代最初授权清洁汽车计划的豁免权，而施密特则寻求废除乔治·W·布什卸任后数月内授予的一项豁免权，该豁免权允许加州自2009款车型起对新乘用车实施温室气体排放标准。
施密特表示，这些豁免权允许萨克拉门托“继续惩罚”全美各地的制造商，并通过他们的“气候危言耸听的规则”影响消费者选择和成本。
共和党人表示，这四项决议共同代表了国会迄今为止最广泛的努力，通过不仅针对个别监管规定，还针对他们所称的促成这些规定的环保署裁决，将各州和制造商从加州的排放框架中解放出来。
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拜登总统坐在坚毅书桌旁（左图）；克莱斯勒工厂（右图）。（法新社/盖蒂图片社；盖蒂图片社）
反对人士预计会反驳称，这项努力将破坏加州根据《清洁空气法》长期以来采取更严格环境标准的权限。
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Senate moves to unshackle America’s drivers from California’s ‘climate zealots’
August 6, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
Four senators use the Congressional Review Act to nullify EPA decisions on vehicle emissions and lawn equipment
By Charles Creitz Fox News
FIRST ON FOX: Senate Republicans are launching a multi-front effort targeting the legal framework they say allows California to exert outsized influence over vehicle and equipment emissions standards beyond its borders, creating economic and consumer consequences.
Republicans argue California has become the nation’s de facto emissions regulator — as manufacturers rarely create separate product lines for the Golden State and instead are inclined to build to California’s standards, creating implicit national requirements.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo. — a top member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) — is leading the effort alongside Sens. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., Jon Husted, R-Ohio, and Pete Ricketts, R-Neb. They argue EPA waivers granted to California during the Obama and Biden administrations under the Clean Air Act have turned narrow environmental exceptions into de facto climate regulation advancing the state’s sweeping climate agenda.
“California’s climate zealots have run roughshod over the rest of the country for too long,” Lummis told Fox News Digital.
CALIFORNIA SUES TRUMP EPA OVER MOVE TO SUBJECT STATE VEHICLE EMISSIONS WAIVERS TO CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW
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“Under Governor Newsom, Sacramento has decided it can dictate what Wyoming families drive and what equipment our small businesses use. That ends today.”
Last year, lawmakers successfully rescinded three Biden-era EPA waivers allowing California to create emissions standards for trucks, cars and buses that they said gave the state outsized regulatory control. Thursday’s package goes a step further by targeting earlier EPA decisions they say laid the legal foundation for those now-rescinded regulations.
Each resolution uses the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify a different EPA waiver. The CRA gives Congress the power to check agencies’ executive power.
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Because the CRA bars agencies from issuing rules that are “substantially the same” without new authorization from Congress, Republicans argue overturning the waivers would prevent future administrations from simply reinstating them — which targets the legal foundation of such carveouts.
Collectively, the package targets California’s authority over gas-powered lawn equipment, passenger vehicle emissions standards, the Advanced Clean Cars program and the original 2009 EPA waiver allowing Sacramento to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
In the 1960s, the Clean Air Act gave California a narrow carve-out to seek EPA waivers for emissions rules that could be stricter than federal standards — but critics say the exemption, originally intended to address severe Los Angeles smog, has been weaponized to force manufacturing changes that reverberate across the country.
Andrew Bray, an executive with the National Association of Landscape Professionals, whose members rely on small off-road engines affected by the waivers, said he supports a responsible transition to lower-emission equipment — but underlined that it must come from “practical innovation” and not government mandates.
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MCKITTRICK, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 03: Pumpjacks operate in the Belridge oil field on November 03, 2021 near McKittrick, California. The Biden administration pledged to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production yesterday. In California, 35,000 oil and gas wells sit idle, many of which are unplugged and could leak methane gas. Scientists estimate that one-third of human-induced global warming is caused by methane. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)(Mario Tama)
“This resolution is a critical step in securing the flexibility businesses need while technology continuess to advance,” Bray said. Michael Lee of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America added that the legislative process, not state-specific fiats with “nationwide consequences,” is the way to address the situation.
The four lawmakers leading the fight said in a release that California regulators have “abandoned any pretense of addressing local air quality and turned the waiver process into a backdoor for imposing a radical climate agenda on the entire country… without a single vote in Congress.”
Lummis’ resolution would rescind a 2025 waiver granted just before President Donald Trump took office that she said allowed California to phase out gas-powered small engines such as chainsaws and leaf blowers.
In doing so, manufacturers would no longer be inclined to transition to electric or zero-emission models.
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A California oil field in McKittrick, left; a Chrysler plant in the US, right.(Ty Wright/Getty Images; Getty Images)
Lummis’ resolution targets a 2025 EPA waiver that allowed California to move toward phasing out new gas-powered small engines such as chainsaws, leaf blowers and lawn mowers. Supporters say repealing the waiver would remove regulatory pressure encouraging manufacturers to transition those products toward zero-emission technology.
Husted’s resolution targets a 2022 EPA waiver that restored California’s authority to continue its Advanced Clean Cars program.
“Ohioans shouldn’t be forced to follow California’s lead when it comes to policies that make everyday life more expensive and less convenient,” he told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
Ricketts said the situation is proof that the Obama-Biden era of “overregulation and red tape” continues to cost Nebraskans and Americans writ large millions of dollars, citing his state’s massive agricultural industry as an example of regulatory reverberations from Sacramento.
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“They used California policies as a backdoor EV mandate and even tried to control how we cut our grass,” he said. His CRA resolution targets an Obama-era waiver originally authorizing the clean car program, while Schmitt seeks repeal of a waiver granted just months after President George W. Bush left office that allows California to enforce greenhouse gas emissions standards for new passenger vehicles beginning with the 2009 model year.
Schmitt said the waivers allow Sacramento to “continue to punish” manufacturers around the country and affect consumer choice and costs through their “climate alarmist rules.”
Together, Republicans say the four resolutions represent Congress’ broadest effort yet to unshackle states and manufacturers from California’s emissions framework by targeting not only individual regulations but the EPA decisions they argue made those regulations possible.
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President Biden sits at the Resolute Desk, left; a Chrysler plant, right.(AFP/Getty Images; Getty Images)
Opponents are expected to counter that the effort would undermine California’s longstanding authority under the Clean Air Act to adopt stricter environmental standards.
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Fox News Digital reached out to former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, for comment.
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