Trump EPA Reportedly Axing Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure Rule
Audrey Streb
Contributor
April 11, 2025
President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly eliminating the requirement for industrial plants to collect and report their greenhouse gas emissions, according to multiple reports.
The change would affect roughly 2,300 industrial plants, including oil refineries and coal plants, out of 8,000 applicable facilities according to documents reviewed by ProPublica Thursday, as well as a Friday report by The New York Times. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a “reconsideration” of the “burdensome” Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program on March 12, arguing that it’s costly and hurts small businesses.
“The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is another example of a bureaucratic government program that does not improve air quality,” Zeldin said at the time. “Instead, it costs American businesses and manufacturing millions of dollars, hurting small businesses and the ability to achieve the American Dream.”
Launched in 2010 under the Obama administration, the Greenhouse Gas Reporting program requires thousands of industrial facilities to report their emissions annually and make the data public. Currently, the EPA requires select industrial plants to report their annual emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, three of the most common elements labeled as greenhouse gases.
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