How Michigan’s U.S. House members voted on the environment

Adds a federal standard that state utility regulators must consider adopting: very large new electricity customers, such as data centers, pay the full cost of the power plants and lines built to serve them, rather than spreading it across everyone's bills. A Yes vote supported the bill.

H.R. 9340 · Passed 417–3 · Official title: Ratepayer Protection Act · Official tally →

Renews through 2029 the EPA program that gives grants, rebates and loans to replace old diesel engines in trucks, buses and equipment or fit them with pollution controls. A Yes vote supported the bill.

H.R. 2140 · Passed 343–79 · Official title: Diesel Emissions Reduction Act · Official tally →

Repeals the 2022 climate law's rebate program that helps low- and moderate-income households buy heat pumps and efficient electric appliances, along with contractor training grants and help for states adopting energy-saving building codes, and takes back the unspent money. A Yes vote repealed them.

H.R. 4758 · Passed 210–199 · Official title: Homeowner Energy Freedom Act · Official tally →

A 2023 federal order had closed about 225,000 acres of national forest beside Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to mining for 20 years, to protect the Rainy River watershed and treaty lands of the Lake Superior Chippewa. This resolution cancelled the order and reopened the land to mining leases. A Yes vote was to reopen it.

H.J.Res. 140 · Passed 214–208 · Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN · Official tally →

Rewrites the National Environmental Policy Act so that fewer federal actions need an environmental review, reviews look only at a project's direct effects, and court challenges are limited. A Yes vote supported the bill.

H.R. 4776 · Passed 221–196 · Official title: SPEED Act · Official tally →

Replaces the presidential permit for oil and gas pipelines and power lines that cross the Canadian or Mexican border with a certificate from federal energy regulators, issued on a deadline, and requires Congress's approval before a president can revoke an existing pipeline permit. Enbridge's Line 5 crosses from Michigan into Ontario. A Yes vote supported the bill.

H.R. 3062 · Passed 224–203 · Official title: Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act · Official tally →

Puts into law the Fish and Wildlife Service program that tags hatchery-raised fish stocked in the Great Lakes, so state and tribal managers can tell them from wild fish, and lets the agency expand it. A Yes vote supported the bill.

H.R. 1917 · Passed 360–57 · Official title: Great Lakes Mass Marking Program Act · Official tally →

The 2025 budget and tax law. Among many other things, it ended the $7,500 tax credit for buying a new electric vehicle and the $4,000 credit for a used one, and ended the home tax credits for rooftop solar, heat pumps and efficiency upgrades. A Yes vote passed the final bill.

H.R. 1 · Passed 218–214 · Official title: One Big Beautiful Bill Act · Official tally →

An EPA rule required large industrial sources of toxic air pollution to keep their pollution controls in place if they reclassified into a less-regulated category. This resolution cancelled that rule. A Yes vote was to remove the requirement.

S.J.Res. 31 · Passed 216–212 · Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act” · Official tally →

The 2022 climate law created a fee on oil and gas companies whose facilities leak methane above set limits. This resolution cancelled the EPA rule that put the fee into effect. A Yes vote was to end the fee.

H.J.Res. 35 · Passed 220–206 · Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions” · Official tally →