Chairman Palmer Speaks in Support of FIRE Act on the House Floor

U.S. House of Representatives · April 21, 2026

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Floor remarks urging support for HR 6387, the FIRE Act

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A lawmaker spoke on the House floor in support of HR 6387, the FIRE Act (introduced by Congressman Gabe Evans of Colorado and co-led by Congressman Adam Gray of California), arguing the bill would amend the Clean Air Act so that prescribed burns and other wildfire mitigation activities are treated as "exceptional events" and therefore not counted against states under national air quality standards. The speaker said EPA's 2016 effort to include prescribed burns in the exceptional event rule failed and that only one prescribed fire qualified in the last decade, framing the bill as necessary to 1

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A member of the U.S. House of Representatives delivered a floor speech urging support for HR 6387, the FIRE Act, which would amend the Clean Air Act to treat prescribed burns as "exceptional events" so states are not penalized for wildfire mitigation practices.

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