Air Quality Monitoring Changes: Wildfire Mitigation and Exceptional Events.
This law changes how the federal government measures and evaluates air quality, especially when pollution results from wildfires or controlled burns used to prevent them. It allows states to exclude pollution data caused by necessary fire mitigation actions from official air quality violation reports, encouraging better wildfire risk management. Citizens will also gain greater transparency regarding air quality monitoring.
Key points
States can more easily conduct controlled burns to prevent major wildfires without facing penalties for temporary air quality dips.
The EPA must create a public website detailing the status of all requests to exclude air pollution data, increasing transparency for citizens.
Requires regional analysis of pollution when the same event (like a large wildfire) affects multiple states.
Introduced
Citizen Poll