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Introduced December 17, 2025 by Troy Carter · Last progress December 17, 2025
The bill greatly expands air monitoring, transparency, and environmental-justice targeting—providing communities and regulators better data and faster protections—but does so at meaningful fiscal and administrative cost and with increased compliance burdens, privacy concerns, and potential economic impacts for affected businesses and localities.
Residents near industrial and other pollution sources (including urban, rural, low-income, and minority communities) will get publicly accessible near real-time emissions data and multilingual alerts, enabling faster protective action and awareness.
Disadvantaged and overburdened communities will receive substantially expanded local monitoring (including cluster deployments and pollutant-specific monitors), improving detection of pollution hotspots and environmental justice targeting.
Covered facilities will face stronger enforcement incentives and must perform root-cause analyses and remedial actions (and some sites get continuous monitoring), improving emergency response and reducing ongoing sources of hazardous emissions.
Owners and operators (including many small businesses and utilities) will face substantial new compliance costs for installing, operating, and maintaining continuous/fenceline monitors, conducting analyses, and meeting more frequent reporting — costs that may be passed to consumers or threaten smaller firms.
Taxpayers and federal budgets will absorb significant new spending (multiple appropriations and program costs across FY2026–27 and beyond) to implement monitoring, grants, and data systems.
EPA, states, and localities face substantial administrative, staffing, procurement, and oversight burdens to implement the law rapidly (risking delays, rushed procurements, or unmet program goals).
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Directs EPA to expand fenceline, reference, and low-cost air monitoring; adopt monitoring-based corrective actions for major HAP sources; expand emissions and PFAS reporting; and publish centralized public data.
Requires EPA to build and run a large, public-facing air-pollution monitoring and reporting program focused on hazardous air pollutants and community exposures. The agency must deploy fenceline, reference (NCore), and many low-cost sensors in prioritized, vulnerable areas; adopt new reporting rules for emissions (including HAPs and PFAS); set monitoring-based corrective-action triggers and public remediation steps for major sources; and publish monitoring results in a centralized, accessible, multilingual database.