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To amend the Clean Air Act to exclude carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide from the definition of the term ``air pollutant''.
Summary
This bill amends the Clean Air Act to exclude carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide from the definition of "air pollutant" under federal environmental law. The amendment would remove these three greenhouse gases from the scope of substances that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. This change would eliminate the legal basis for EPA regulation of these gases under that statute.
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- Feb 12, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
- Feb 12, 2026 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 12, 2026
Mr. Onder introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To amend the Clean Air Act to exclude carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide from the definition of the term “air pollutant”.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Curtailing Agency Reach and Bureaucracy Overreach on Net-Zero Act” or the “CARBON Act”.
SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF CARBON DIOXIDE, METHANE, AND NITROUS OXIDE.
Section 302(g) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7602(g)) is amended by adding at the end “Such term does not include carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide.”. <all>
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