BGOV Bill Analysis: S. J. Res. 86, South Dakota Park Haze Rule

The Trump administration’s approval of a revised South Dakota plan to limit air pollution in national parks would be repealed using the Congressional Review Act under S. J. Res. 86.

South Dakota submitted the plan to the Environmental Protection Agency in July 2022 under the Clean Air Act’s Regional Haze Program, which requires states and federal agencies to work together to improve visibility in 156 national parks and wilderness areas. States develop and revise plans with the goal of reducing pollutants and returning the areas to natural visibility conditions by 2064.

The South Dakota plan requires no additional emission ...