FIRE Act

This bill amends Section 319(b) of the Clean Air Act to let states discount air pollution caused by wildfire-prevention burns. It creates a new category, "action to mitigate wildfire risk," defined as a prescribed fire or similar measure carried out under state-approved practices to reduce wildfire risk and severity. Under current law a state may petition EPA to exclude monitoring data from an "exceptional event" when EPA decides whether an area meets national air quality standards. This bill extends that same petition process to pollution from wildfire-mitigation actions, so exceedances traced to a prescribed burn can be excluded from attainment and designation determinations. It directs EPA to issue revised regulations within 18 months of enactment. It requires EPA to run regional modeling when more than one state petitions over the same multistate air quality event. It requires EPA to build a public website, updated monthly, tracking the status of all petitions. It also rewrites the definition of "exceptional event" and states that the term does not include ordinary air-mass stagnation, meteorological inversions, or pollution from source noncompliance.

At least 17 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 44 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 16 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: American Petroleum Institute; American Lung Association; Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.; National Mining Association; Earthjustice Action. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 12 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.