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The EPA today suggested that about 8,000 pollution facilities, including oil refineries, power plants and steel mills, should no longer need to report their greenhouse gas emissions.
Since 2010, the Green House Gas Reporting Program has demanded that such facilities – spreading several dozen types – their greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, report their expulsion to the government. The data is made public every October. According to the EPA’s own website, as it appeared today, the data can be used to “reduce pollution, minimize waste energy, and to identify opportunities for money saving, as well as” forming common understanding policies “.
The EPA statement claims that the reporting program “does not have a material effect on improving health and environment.” EPA Administrator Li Zeldon said in a statement that the program “is nothing but bureaucratic red tape that does nothing to improve air quality.”
“Instead, it has to spend on American businesses and billions of dollars, which increases the cost of life, endangers the prosperity of our nation and hurts American communities,” he said.
Environmental groups have pointed out that without the data, rules and regulations cannot be implemented to prevent Americans from the harmful effects of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
“Some industries want to maintain the secret so that the public does not know who is responsible and holding them accountable,” said David Donager, a senior lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Washington Post. “What people do not know, they cannot demand that they be regular.”
The move is the latest of many measures by the Trump administration to reduce the rules of greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental concerns.
In June, for example, the EPA proposed to cancel the federal boundaries on power plant carbon emissions. In July, the agency proposed to retrieve the 2009 risk search, which showed that greenhouse gas emissions were at risk of public health and welfare, and then it had reduced the federal government’s efforts to reduce climate change.
Actimily Emily Gardner (@EMFURD.bsky.Social), Associate Editor
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