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 guidelines for new and existing sources would not apply to low-production oil and gas wells, called marginal wells. A marginal well is defined as an oil well producing 15 barrels or less per day, or a natural gas well producing 90,000 cubic feet or less per day, averaged over the prior year. The exemption also covers monitoring, reporting, recordkeeping, leak detection and repair, and emissions measurement requirements. The EPA could not require state plans to include standards for these wells, would have 180 days to act on state plan changes removing them or the changes would be treated as approved, and pending enforcement actions against marginal wells under these rules would be ended.

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Sponsors

• Cynthia M. Lummis Republican sponsor
• 10 cosponsors