The Trump administration announced on Friday that it is planning to stop more than 8,000 polluters to demand that they report greenhouse gas emissions.
The US Environmental Protection Agencies proposal Would industrial facilities such as coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and steel factories no longer have to follow the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and other emissions that they broadcast and to report and report that has been in force since 2010.
The agency said that American companies could save up to $ 2.4 billion in the following decade as a result of the change. Some experts have argued that the social costs of emissions of companies in the US would come across the dozens of trillions By 2050.
The EPA in the release said that the requirement of facilities to report emissions “had no material impact on improving human health and the environment.” After months of work from the Trump administration, it comes to dismantle various federal programs that have been designed to combat climate change and Cutbacks on research financing To study the phenomenon.
The efforts of the administration to withdraw into climate change are at odds with the broad scientific consensus that people powered by people are linked to extreme weather and health risks. A study published in Nature In the past week, for example, 180 of the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement producers 213 extreme heat waves between 2000 and 2023 had more chance and more dangerous.
What does greenhouse gas report do?
Since 2010, the greenhouse gas reporting program has collected emission data of around 8,000 of the largest industrial facilities in the US from 47 different source categories. In turn, this information has traditionally been shared with the United Nations, but for the first time in almost 30 years the Trump administration missed a deadline in April to submit data on American climate emissions.
As part of the Paris 2015 Agreement, the United Nations has required industrialized countries to reduce their emissions to combat climate change. US President Donald Trump announced on his first day at the office that the US would do that withdraw from this agreement For the second time (Trump pulled the US during its first term from the agreement).
“The reporting program of greenhouse gases is nothing more than bureaucratic bureaucracy that does nothing to improve air quality,” said Lee Zeldin, the EPA manager, in a statement. “Instead, it costs American companies and produces billions of dollars, float up the costs of living, endangers the prosperity of our nation and hurting American communities.”
“In contrast to other compulsory information collections under the Clean Air Act, the greenhouse gas reporting program is not directly related to a possible regulation and has no material impact on improving human health and the environment. By reducing the total regulatory burden, the current regulated parties can focus
Certain oil and gas facilities will still be necessary to report emission data as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, although the EPA proposal would enable these facilities to suspend the report until 2034.
Critics point to the costs of losing data
Proponents of the environment criticized the proposal as the impediment of future policy -making.
“With this step they take away the practical and material capacity of the federal government to do the basic elements of climate policy,” said a former EPA officer under the Biden administration The New York Times.
The proposal would eliminate data to which the public, states and local policy makers have been dependent for more than 15 years, so that Americans are ‘in the dark’ about where pollution comes from, David Doniger, a senior strategist at the Natures Defense Council, an environmental interest group told, told The corresponding press.
Before this proposal has been completed, the EPA will hold a virtual public hearing and accept public comments for 47 days after the proposal has been published in the Federal Register.
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