This bill directs EPA to provide grants for cleaner air space programs during wildfire smoke events. Grants support air pollution control agencies, including tribal agencies, in creating clean air centers in public buildings, distributing air filtration units to vulnerable households, and providing educational materials. Programs must partner with community organizations and target areas at risk of wildfire smoke exposure.
Latest Action
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
AI Summary
Plain-English explanation of this bill
This bill directs EPA to provide grants for cleaner air space programs during wildfire smoke events. Grants support air pollution control agencies, including tribal agencies, in creating clean air centers in public buildings, distributing air filtration units to vulnerable households, and providing educational materials. Programs must partner with community organizations and target areas at risk of wildfire smoke exposure.
Last updated: 1/4/2026
Official Summary
Congressional Research Service summary
<p><strong>Cleaner Air Spaces Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to provide grants to air pollution control agencies, including at least one tribal agency with jurisdiction over air quality, to implement cleaner air space programs (i.e., programs to provide clean air to the public during wildland fire smoke events). Generally, such programs must be located in areas at risk of exposure to wildland fire smoke and must help provide educational materials, clean air centers (i.e., one or more clean air rooms in a publicly accessible building), and air filtration units to certain households. Clean air rooms are rooms designed to keep levels of harmful air pollutants as low as possible during wildland fire smoke events.</p><p>Under the bill, air pollution control agencies must partner with at least one community-based organization in implementing such programs.</p>
Key Points
Main provisions of the bill
EPA grants for clean air programs during wildfire smoke events
Supports creation of clean air centers in public buildings
Provides air filtration units to vulnerable households
Includes at least one tribal agency grant
Requires community organization partnerships
How This Impacts Americans
Potential effects on citizens and communities
Wildfire smoke increasingly threatens public health as fires become more frequent and severe. Clean air rooms and filtration programs provide refuge for vulnerable populations including elderly, children, and those with respiratory conditions. This legislation creates infrastructure for smoke events that are becoming regular occurrences in many Western and increasingly Eastern communities.
Policy Areas
Primary Policy Area
Environmental Protection
Related Subjects
Air quality
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Health technology, devices, supplies
Low- and moderate-income housing
State and local government operations
Scope & Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction Level
federal
Congressional Session
119th Congress
Citation Reference
147, 119th Congress (2025). "Cleaner Air Spaces Act of 2025". Source: Voter's Right Platform. https://votersright.org/bills/118-s-147
