# H.R. 2140 (119th): Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025

Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025 This bill reauthorizes through FY2029 a diesel emissions reduction program under which the Environmental Protection Agency provides grants, rebates, or loans for replacing diesel engines or retrofitting the engines with pollution control technologies.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: diesel_emissions. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environment. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_stewardship. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: grants_program. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: reauthorization. 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 304: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill directs federal grants and loans toward reducing diesel pollution, a modest good in stewardship and public health terms. It also extends federal spending authority, and the summary gives no evidence of direct moral harm. Under the framework this is an ordinary environmental and spending measure with prudential disagreement, so mixed is the appropriate classification rather than unclear.
Theological note: The bill concerns stewardship of air quality and the reduction of pollution affecting neighbors and communities, which relates to care for creation and love of neighbor. It is a funding and reauthorization measure, so its moral weight depends on prudent administration, honest use of public money, and whether the program achieves its stated environmental purpose. This is issue relevance, not a final candidate judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 304: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 343 · Nay 79 · Other 10.

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