The EPA wants to end a requirement that large polluters report their greenhouse gas emissions
Washington (AP) -Cuma Day Environmental Protection Agency proposed to eliminate a program that requires large, mostly industrial pollutants to inform the government about the greenhouse gas emissions of the planet.
. The program requires refineries, power plants, oil wells and storage areas to report their emissions. Without the risk of punishment as the authorities try to identify high polluting facilities and develop policies to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Experts say that reports are responsible for their emissions.
Since the program started in 2009, the US industry has decreased by a 20% decrease in carbon emissions, which are mostly directed by the closure of coal fuel power plants.
EPA manager Lee Zeldin called Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program “burdensome ve and helped to improve human health and the environment.
Zeldin, the abolition of the rule, the Agency’s legal obligations within the scope of clean air caning while maintaining American businesses for 10 years at regulatory costs will save up to $ 2.4 billion, he said. If terminated, the proposal will eliminate reporting obligations for most large industrial facilities in the United States, as well as fuel and industrial gas suppliers and carbon dioxide injections.
“Greenhouse gas reporting program is nothing but a bureaucratic bureaucracy that does nothing to improve air quality, Z Zeldin said.
“He costs American enterprises and billions of dollars, increases the cost of living, endangers the welfare of our nation and damages American communities,” he said. With this proposal, we show once again that it is not a dual choice to fulfill EPA’s legal obligations and strengthen the Great American return. ”
However, experts, as Zeldin promised in March, says he reduced the need. The biggest day of deregulation In the US history – companies are no longer responsible to the public from what they have evacuated into the air, so an increase in emissions is at risk. And losing the data – at the same time EPA stops watching air quality elsewhere – will do it It is more difficult to combat climate change.
Joseph Goffman, who manages the Air and Radiation Office under the direction of EPA’s President Joe Biden, eliminates the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program and said, “Americans blind to the facts about climate pollution.
Hiding the pollution information from the public, he said, “Administrator Zeldin denies the ability to see the ability to see the harmful consequences of their actions on climate pollution, air quality and public health to the Americans, G Goffman said. The Trump administration puts pollutants in front of people’s health. “
David Doniger, a senior strategist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, said, “A sarcastic effort to keep the American people in the dark, because if they don’t know who the pollutants are, they can’t do anything to keep them responsible.
Great pollutants may want to keep climate pollution confidential, but public, states and local policy makers have been “trusting these data” for more than 15 years. Doniger, public accountability and the return of investors, EPA, even before setting more strict standards, many companies lead to reduce climatic pollution, he said.
However, Zeldin said that reducing the general regulatory burden on the US industry will allow companies to “focus on real, concrete environmental benefits of conformity expenditures”.
Zeldin said the greenhouse gas reporting program includes 47 resource categories and required more than 8,000 facilities and suppliers to calculate greenhouse gas emissions per year in the USA.
“After a careful examination, EPA suggested that there is no need for gathering greenhouse gas emission information from the enterprises (clean air life) (clean air life) or that it does not continue to collect cost -effective data that is beneficial to fulfill any of the legal obligations of the agency.” He said.
EPA will accept public comments on the proposal for more than six weeks after the plan was published in the expected Federal Registration in the coming days.
