Brett Guthrie: “Mr. Speaker, the legislation before us today addresses a key issue created in the Biden-Harris administration that harms…”

“Mr. Speaker, the legislation before us today addresses a key issue created in the Biden-Harris administration that harms American businesses and actually disincentivizes investment to reduce pollution. This was originally created during the Clinton administration. It was the 'once in, always in' rule that penalized job creators and energy producers who took steps to invest in new technologies that lowered pollution. If your emissions are at such a level you become a major source, once in under this rule that we are overturning today, you are always a major source, no matter what you do with your businesses. If you lower emissions, if you lower standards, you put in new equipment, you do operating hours differently, you do whatever you can to lower your emissions, you can't go back to being an area source and regulated with a level of emissions. Once you cross the threshold, no matter what you do, you stay listed as a major source pollutant. We believe it disincentivizes companies from trying to lower their standard, and that is what we want to do.”