Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act of 2025

This bill would change the Clean Air Act's rules for air quality monitoring data affected by exceptional events so that they also cover prescribed fires, which are planned fires set under applicable laws to meet specific goals. Under the bill, a State would decide whether an event is an exceptional event, unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator later decides otherwise. The EPA would have to propose revised regulations within 270 days after enactment, after consulting federal land managers and state air, forestry, and wildlife agencies, and finalize them within 180 days after that. The EPA would also have to help develop exceptional event demonstrations covering multiple jurisdictions when several state, local, or Tribal agencies ask. The bill states that stationary source emissions that did not count as exceptional events before enactment would not become exceptional events because of this law.

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Sponsors

• John R. Curtis Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors