Exceptional Events Misrule?

Air Pollution is one of the biggest causes of human ill-health and early death. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA), Clean Air Act is supposed to protect all US citizens from such pollution. There's, however, a little known legal loophole in this Act. The Exceptional Events Rule allows local governments to 'strike out' pollution from clean air tallies, if it's produced by 'natural' or 'uncontrollable' agencies like wildfires. There's been a few of these in the US recently! More than 70 counties are increasingly using this loophole, to con 21 million Americans into thinking they're breathing cleaner air than what's around them (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/16/epa-local-governments-dont-report-air-pollution-wildfire-smoke-data-across-us). There's reasonable concern that the Clean Air Act is becoming unfit for purpose. Perhaps, the EPA should at least plug this loophole? Wildfires are becoming seasonal events in large parts of the US. The generated air pollution can travel thousands of miles.