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• The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a rule to end a mandatory program that requires 8,000 facilities to report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
• The agency claims the program is “bureaucratic red tape” that is “not directly related to a potential regulation and has no material impact on improving human health and the environment.”
• This move is a response to an executive order aimed at unleashing more US energy, and it is the latest in a series of major regulatory rollbacks on climate change.
• If the proposal is finalized, it would remove reporting obligations for most large facilities, fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites.
• The current administration has also announced plans to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement and end the collection of other key environmental data.
• The only exception is that the EPA will still require large oil and gas operations to report methane emissions if they are subject to a waste emissions charge.