The EPA's rules, which took effect in January, were put into place after Congress failed to pass legislation backed by Obama to create a cap-and-trade system for pollution allowances.
Lawmakers such as Upton said the Clean Air Act was never intended to regulate emissions such as carbon dioxide, an odorless, invisible gas unlike smog, which is the law's target.
Should Upton's legislation reach Obama's desk, aides would recommend a presidential veto, the White House Office of Management and Budget said yesterday.
Public Surveys
A February poll commissioned by the American Lung Association found that 60% of people questioned said Congress shouldn't stop the EPA rules and 35% thought lawmakers should bar the agency from limiting discharges of carbon dioxide, a primary greenhouse gas.
The survey of 500 probable voters Feb. 7-14 by Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Republican pollster Ayres, McHenry & Associates, according to the Washington-based association, a health-advocacy group. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4%.