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DETROIT (AP) 鈥� Congress has voted to kill a Biden-era rule requiring rubber tire makers to clean up planet-warming emissions from their manufacturing processes in the U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules for the rubber tire industry, specifically previously unregulated rubber processing, last to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants. Tires are made of chemicals, compounds and materials that release greenhouse gases, heavy metals and volatile organic compounds, experts say.

Republican Virginia Congressman Morgan Griffith, alongside South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, also Republicans, introduced a resolution to undo the rules earlier this year and it advanced through the Congressional Review Act, which allows for an fast-tracked reversal of certain federal agency鈥檚 rules. The vote passed in the House on March 5 and the Senate on Tuesday. The measure heads to the president鈥檚 desk for signing next.

The standards regulate other so-called asbestos, asphalt roofing processing and manufacturing, dry cleaning, petroleum refineries, other chemical production and processes and more, which 鈥� in addition to the environmental concerns 鈥� can cause cancer and other serious health impacts, according to the EPA.

The rubber rule resulted from a that required the EPA to address unregulated emissions from source categories upon the agency’s technology reviews as required by the Clean Air Act. Plaintiffs in the case included the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, a nonprofit organization representing communities located near historically dirty air.

Aimed at meeting Clean Air Act requirements, the EPA said at the time that the rubber rule changes would cut total hydrocarbons and filterable particulate matter 鈥� or solids that can be captured on a filter, known as fPM 鈥� emissions by approximately 171 tons per year.

Industry stakeholders have argued that tire factories would be required to install costly 鈥渞egenerative thermal oxidizers,鈥� new air pollution control equipment that destroys HAPs and VOCs, that would increase carbon emissions and, because of the expense, harm American manufacturing jobs.

The nation is home to major tire makers including Michelin North America, headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, and Goodyear, in Akron, Ohio. The two companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The measure marks the latest of this administration’s efforts to deregulate industry in the name of bolstering American manufacturing. The EPA first said it would for rubber tire manufacturing and other notable industries as part of a announced on March 12. Republicans have generally been using the Congressional Review Act to wage an assault on the previous administration’s many efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Griffith said in a Tuesday that, 鈥淟ike many of the regulations issued during the waning days of the Biden-Harris Administration, the rubber tire manufacturing emission standard utilized questionable emissions data and pointed to negligible health benefits as justification for the rule.鈥� He said the rule did not serve public health.

The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association said the vote 鈥渞educes financial burdens on tire manufacturing facilities.鈥�

鈥淭ire manufacturers have long understood and complied with” existing standards, Anne Forristall Luke, president and CEO of the industry group said in a . To the group, the November rule “creates an adverse environmental impact, while imposing significant financial burdens on tire manufacturing facilities and providing negligible, if any, benefits.鈥�

But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, called the measure 鈥測et another of many attempts to unravel protections for human health and the environment鈥� and part of an 鈥渆ndless quest to accommodate the countries鈥� biggest polluters.鈥�

Ahead of Tuesday’s vote, Whitehouse said on the Senate floor that the resolution 鈥渨ould deny clean air protections to the American people with particular harm to American children whose lungs and brains, still developing, are most vulnerable to the effects of these pollutants.鈥�

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