EPA Proposes Ending Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Requirements for Industrial Facilities
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Summary
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to stop requiring thousands of industrial facilities including coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, and steel mills to report their greenhouse gas emissions. This data collection, which began in 2010, has been the country's most comprehensive tool for tracking carbon dioxide, methane, and other climate-changing gases. The move follows months of efforts by the Trump administration to roll back environmental regulations.
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· 4 pulledThe Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday to stop requiring thousands of polluting facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release into the air.
The E.P.A. proposal would end requirements for thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities across the country.
The government has been collecting this data since 2010 and it is a key tool to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.
The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases.
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