Air Permitting Improvements to Protect National Security Act of 2025

This bill changes the Clean Air Act rules for new or expanded factories that make semiconductors or semiconductor equipment, and for facilities that mine, process, refine, or mill critical minerals. It would let the President waive, fully or partly, the requirement that these facilities offset their increased air pollution, if the President decides doing so serves national security. The President could not hand this decision to anyone else. The bill also requires state permitting agencies to let these facilities meet offset rules through alternative measures or an emissions fee when they show enough offsets are not available. Any fee could be no more than 1.5 times the average cost of recent local pollution control measures, and the state must use the fees to reduce emissions in that area.

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Sponsors

• Gary J. Palmer Republican sponsor
• 11 cosponsors