Protect Domestic Oil and Gas Small Business Act of 2026

This bill would change the Clean Air Act so that federal air pollution performance standards and related rules no longer apply to marginal oil and gas wells or their owners and operators. These rules include monitoring, reporting, record-keeping, leak detection and repair, and emissions measurement. A marginal well is defined as an oil well site producing 15 barrels of oil (or oil equivalent) per day per well or less, or a natural gas well site producing 90,000 cubic feet of gas per day per well or less, averaged over the prior year. The EPA could not require state plans to cover these wells, would have 180 days to act on state plan changes exempting them (or the change is treated as approved), and pending enforcement actions against these wells would end.

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Sponsors

• August Pfluger Republican sponsor
• 29 cosponsors