Tropospheric Ozone Research Act of 2026

This bill would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set up a competitive grant program within 90 days after Congress provides funding. Grants would go to colleges and universities, National Laboratories, and other nonprofit research groups to study how ozone in the lower atmosphere affects global and local temperatures, heat stress, crops, and forests, and to improve ozone monitoring and climate models. Grant recipients would report their findings each year, and monitoring data and reports would be made public. Within 4 years, the EPA would send Congress a public report with findings, cost and benefit assessments of ways to reduce ozone-forming pollutants, and policy recommendations. The bill authorizes $10.5 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2029 and $1 million for fiscal year 2030.

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Sponsors

• Deborah K. Ross Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors