House lawmakers voted to reverse an Environmental Protection Agency set of standards to reduce hazardous emissions from the rubber tire manufacturing process. 

On Wednesday, House lawmakers voted 216 to 202 to pass Rep. Morgan Griffith’s (R-VA) bill to undo the EPA’s rule relating to “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing.” Republicans argued that the rule increases compliance costs for the industry and results in higher prices for consumers.

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The EPA implemented the standards last November. The standards address the emissions of
hazardous air pollutants from the rubber tire process to protect public health. The EPA, at the time, estimated that the regulation would cost the industry approximately $13.3 million per year.

However, Griffith said on the House floor that tire manufacturers will suffer and shed jobs because of the costs of the regulation. 

“This regulation is probably not properly done but that’s for the courts to decide. We can fix it though here in Congress with this Congressional Review Act,” Griffith said.

Griffith introduced the bill through the Congressional Review Act, a special legislative process that bypasses the filibuster and allows a simple majority vote in the House and Senate to cancel agency regulations. Republicans have used this specific legislative process to undo many of Biden’s energy and climate regulations in the past week.

“Some on the other side may say, well if we repeal this regulation we are letting tire manufacturers uncheck pollution,” Griffith said, adding that manufacturers will still need to abide by federal and local air pollution regulations.