John Sarbanes: “In fiscal year 2018, the EPA enforcement actions, injunctive relief actions resulted in $3.9 billion in injunctive…”

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.

Congress gave EPA this role more than 50 years ago under the Clean Air Act and reaffirmed that responsibility in 2005 under the Energy Policy Act.

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

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.