H.J.Res. 35 · 119th Congress · Environmental protection
Overturning the EPA Waste Emissions Charge Rule
How each chamber voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
Senate · Feb 27, 2025
Roll call ↗52
47
Passed the Senate.
House · Feb 26, 2025
Roll call ↗220
206
Passed the House.
Law 38 days after it was introduced
Public Law 119-2. Each step dated from the congress.gov record
- IntroducedFeb 4, 2025
- CommitteeFeb 4, 2025
- Passed HouseFeb 26, 2025
- Passed SenateFeb 27, 2025
- Became lawMar 14, 2025
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 19
- all Republicans
- House committee
- Energy and Commerce
- Lobbying
- At least 19
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
Using the Congressional Review Act, this resolution voids the Environmental Protection Agency's rule on the Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems, published at 89 Fed.
How each member voted
The Senate roll call, passed the Senate, February 27, 2025
Nay unless marked
D · Sen · MD
D · Sen · WI
D · Sen · CO
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions".
Using the Congressional Review Act, this resolution voids the Environmental Protection Agency's rule on the Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems, published at 89 Fed. Reg. 91094 on November 18, 2024. That rule set the procedures for compliance with the methane waste emissions charge on oil and gas facilities, including how facilities could net emissions and qualify for exemptions. Once this resolution takes effect, the rule has no force or effect, so those compliance, netting, and exemption procedures are struck. Under the Congressional Review Act, the agency may not reissue the rule in substantially the same form without new authorization from Congress.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 19 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 54 quarterly reports filed by 5 lobbying firms and by 15 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Sierra Club; Energy Transfer Partners; Conocophillips; Oneok Inc.; Nfib (National Federation of Independent Business). Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 14 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.