Fair Air Enforcement Act of 2025

Summary

Repeals the Clean Air Act provision that authorizes private citizens and groups to bring enforcement lawsuits and updates other laws and cross-references so the U.S. Code reads cleanly after that repeal. It makes technical edits in the Clean Air Act and one provision of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020 to remove citations to the repealed provision and to fix references, numbering, and punctuation where needed. The change removes a private enforcement tool and shifts the primary responsibility for enforcing many Clean Air Act requirements back to government authorities and permitting/regulatory processes, while leaving the rest of the Act's standards and regulatory structure intact.

• Repeals the Clean Air Act provision authorizing citizen-enforcement (42 U.S.C. 7604).
• Removes references to the repealed provision across the Clean Air Act and one provision of the AIM Act of 2020.
• Makes technical, conforming edits: adjusts cross-references, redesignates subsections, and corrects punctuation and sentence structure.
• Eliminates a statutory private civil‑enforcement tool, shifting enforcement reliance toward government agencies and states.
• Does not create new programs, appropriate funds, or change tax law.
• Could reduce the number of private lawsuits enforcing air-quality requirements.
• May prompt courts, EPA, states, and regulated entities to adapt procedures and interpretations to the absence of the citizen‑suit provision.
• Legal and practical impacts are concentrated on enforcement processes rather than on emission standards themselves.