US EditionBig Polluters No Longer Need to Report Poisoning Environment
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Big polluters no longer need to report poisoning environment
WASHINGTON—Cough, cough, hack. And more global warming, too. That’s what Americans—and potentially the rest of the world, given prevailing winds—will face as a result of pro-pollution President Donald Trump’s latest mandate. Trump’s EPA now says 8,000 big polluters, especially coal-burning power plants, plus steel mills and oil refineries, don’t have to report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions anymore. Needless to say, the BlueGreen Alliance…
EPA Proposes Rule to Nix Greenhouse Gas Reporting Requirements for Most Sources
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week published a proposed rule to eliminate greenhouse gas reporting requirements for most of the sources subject to them. For one source category – petroleum and natural gas delivery systems – the proposed rule would suspend greenhouse gas reporting requirements until 2034. Little bit of background: EPA began requiring certain stationary sources to determine and report their greenhouse gas em…
The EPA proposal would eliminate the only federal program that requires large polluters to report their emissions, hiding data vital to public health and climate justice. WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week a proposal to eliminate the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), a system created in 2010 to track emissions from more than 8,000 of the nation's largest polluters, including power plants, refinerie…
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