Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2022
Summary
Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2022 This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to implement a pilot program to award, on a competitive basis, grants or contracts to state, local, and tribal air agencies to carry out specified projects for hyperlocal air quality monitoring systems in environmental justice communities (i.e., communities with significant representation of communities of color, low income communities, or tribal and indigenous communities that experience, or are at risk of experiencing, higher or more adverse human health or environmental effects). A project carried out using a grant or contract awarded under the pilot program may not exceed five years in duration.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Feb 18, 2022
Last action Feb 21, 2022
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Committee
2
Feb 21, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
lower
Feb 18, 2022
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
lower
Feb 18, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 33 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Kathy Castor
DDemocratic
Co
A. Donald McEachin
DDemocratic
Co
Adam B. Schiff
DDemocratic
Co
Adam Smith
DDemocratic
Co
Alan S. Lowenthal
DDemocratic
Co
André Carson
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Lee
DDemocratic
Co
Bobby L. Rush
DDemocratic
Co
Bonnie Watson Coleman
DDemocratic
Co
Diana DeGette
DDemocratic
Co
Doris O. Matsui
DDemocratic
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