The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed ending greenhouse gas reporting requirements for thousands of coal-fired power plants, oil refineries, steel mills, and other industrial facilities nationwide.
The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, launched in 2010 under the Obama administration, requires thousands of facilities to file annual emissions reports. Ending it, the EPA said in a news release, would save businesses up to $2.4 billion in regulatory costs while still meeting the agency’s obligations under the Clean Air Act.
The program covers 47 source categories and more than 8,000 facilities. The EPA said the reporting is not required by law and no longer serves a purpose. The only exception is the Waste Emissions Charge, a methane fee aimed at the oil and gas industry, but Congress and President Donald Trump delayed it until 2034. That means the EPA will stop collecting greenhouse gas data altogether until that year.
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