•      "American companies are being unfairly penalized for pollution originating outside the United States. We’ve seen how even the mention of a nonattainment designation, like when the Biden EPA threatened to redesignate the Permian Basin, can create significant uncertainty for businesses and communities. These designations delay permits and hurt economic growth, while failing to address the very problem they are trying to solve. My bill restores commonsense by preventing the EPA from punishing states for pollution they didn’t cause – including foreign emissions, cross-state transport, wildfire smoke, and mobile-source emissions outside their control. I’m proud to lead this bill as another major step in modernizing and strengthening America’s broken permitting system." Source: Rep. August Pfluger (Republican, Texas, District 11)

•      "States across America are being punished for emissions and pollution, man-made or natural, that originate from outside our borders, such as emissions from factories in China and Mexico and Canadian wildfires. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) allows states to adjust their plans when foreign emissions affect their ability to meet federal standards, the Biden Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) guidance limited that relief to only human-caused emissions from abroad, excluding natural foreign emissions like wildfire smoke. Not only is it wrong to punish states for emissions outside of their control, but this kind of overly burdensome red tape can place unnecessary burdens on manufacturers and communities, delay important projects for years, and raise costs for Americans." Source: Rep. Steve Scalise (Republican, Louisiana, District 1), Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives