Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025
Latest action · Feb 13, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 13, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 22
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 13, 2025 to Apr 13, 2026; 13 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-IA | Chuck Grassley | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-KS | Jerry Moran | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-SD | John Thune | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-IA | Joni Ernst | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-SD | Mike Rounds | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-NE | Pete Ricketts | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-KS | Roger Marshall | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-WV | Shelley Moore Capito | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| D-IL | Tammy Duckworth | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| D-MN | Tina Smith | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-MS | Roger F. Wicker | Feb 19, 2025 | |
| R-ND | John Hoeven | Feb 24, 2025 | |
| D-MI | Elissa Slotkin | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| D-MI | Gary C. Peters | May 6, 2025 | |
| D-AZ | Ruben Gallego | May 12, 2025 | |
| R-WV | James C. Justice | Oct 6, 2025 | |
| R-KY | Mitch McConnell | Nov 18, 2025 | |
| R-IN | Jim Banks | Jan 14, 2026 | |
| R-MO | Josh Hawley | Apr 13, 2026 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Environment and Public Works Committee | Referred Feb 13, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 13, 2025Introduced in Senate
- Feb 13, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S6950 | Deb Fischer R-NE | Oct 6, 2025 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| IN10979 | Year-Round Sale of E15 | Insight | Jun 5, 2026 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1346 | To amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes. | Related bill | May 14, 2026 |
| HR 1768 | Lower Costs for Everyday Americans Act | Related bill | Mar 3, 2025 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to modify Reid Vapor Pressure requirements and to provide for the return of certain retired credits, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 13, 2025Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
