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Trump EPA Proposes End to Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting
The Environmental Protection Agency aims to save $2.4 billion in regulatory costs by ending emissions tracking for over 8,000 major facilities, raising concerns about transparency and public health.
- On February 18, 2025, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal to terminate the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program during an event held in Washington, D.C.
- The proposal follows a Trump administration executive order aiming to remove regulations perceived as burdensome to U.S. energy producers, particularly fossil fuels.
- The program, active since 2010, requires more than 8,000 industrial facilities to annually report their greenhouse gas emissions and supports policies to reduce pollution.
- Zeldin criticized the program as an unnecessary regulatory burden that fails to enhance air quality and asserted that eliminating it could reduce costs for businesses by as much as $2.4 billion over a decade.
- Critics say ending the program hides pollution data, risks increased emissions, undermines environmental accountability, and endangers investments in clean technologies.
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Trump administration moves to stop requiring polluters to report emissions
The Trump administration on Friday announced that it plans to stop requiring more than 8,000 polluters to report greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal would see industrial facilities like coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, and steel mills no longer have to track and report the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and other emissions they emit—a requirement that had been in place since 2010. The agenc…
A major regulatory reform on the environment is being prepared in the United States. On Friday, September 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a reform proposal to end the federal greenhouse gas emissions reporting programme, the Washington Post report. This obligation has been affecting nearly 8,000 installations since 2010, including power plants, refineries and chemical plants. Loading... The EPA has estimated that this …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to abolish the reporting obligation for greenhouse gas emissions for around 8,000 large companies.
Some say that how much CO2 and methane gas a company emits is important information for decision-makers, whereas the Trump administration speaks of unnecessary bureaucracy.
The Times of Northwest Indiana
EPA proposes ending pollution reporting rule
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed doing away with a program that requires large, mostly industrial polluters to report their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to the government.
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