# H.R. 1346 (119th): Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025

Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025 This bill amends the Clean Air Act to address the limitations on Reid Vapor Pressure (a measure of gasoline's volatility) that are placed on gasoline during the summer ozone season. Specifically, the bill applies the waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure requirements that is applicable to gasoline blended with 10% ethanol (E10) to gasoline blended with up to 15% ethanol (E15). This change allows gasoline that is blended with 10% to 15% ethanol to be sold year-round. Currently, states may be excluded from the waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure requirements by submitting documentation supporting that the waiver would increase air pollution. The bill nullifies existing state exclusions, but states may submit documentation after enactment of the bill to be excluded going forward. The bill also modifies the Renewable Fuel Standard Program, which requires transportation fuel sold or introduced into commerce in the United States to contain minimum volumes of renewable fuel. Under the existing program, obligated parties, such as small refineries, must satisfy the volume obligations by either blending renewable fuels into their gasoline or diesel fuel products or by acquiring credits that represent the required renewable fuel volume. The bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency to return compliance credits to small refineries under certain circumstances.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: consumer_choice. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: fuel_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: renewable_fuel_standard. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 163: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 164: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill combines ordinary prudential goods (consumer choice, year-round fuel availability, relief for small refineries, and a state-exclusion mechanism) with real environmental concerns about summer ozone and air pollution. It does not directly advance a named moral evil nor clearly restrain one, so mixed is the prudent high-level classification.
Theological note: The issue touches stewardship of creation and care for neighbors' air quality, weighed against honest commerce, consumer choice, and fair treatment of small refiners. These are matters of prudential judgment under general equity rather than a clear direct moral harm, so the relevance lies in balancing environmental care with economic fairness. This is an issue-relevance note, not a final candidate judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 163: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 112 · Nay 309 · Other 9.
Roll 164: On Passage. Yea 218 · Nay 203 · Other 9.

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