John Sarbanes: “It just seems like the industry has found this gigantic loophole for going back and creating that whole public health…”

This bill takes important steps to support the ongoing restoration of the Chesapeake Bay by reauthorizing NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office and authorizing the agency's long-running Bay Watershed Education and Training, or B-WET Grant program.

It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ban.

We would like to thank Rep. Sarbanes for introducing this important piece of bipartisan legislation

The goal was not to federalize elections across the country; the goal was to set some uniform standards.