Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate long -standing pollutants requirements for collecting and reports of heat reports that cause climate change. The move, ordered by the appointed Trump, will affect thousands of industrial facilities across the country, including refineries, power plants and coal mines, as well as those that make petrochemicals, cement, iron and steel, according to the documents considered proopublica.
A Green -gas reporting program documents The amount of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that warm the climate that are thrown away by individual objects. The data provided by the public is managed by political solutions and represent a considerable part of the information provided by the government by international bodies, which exposes global gas gas pollution. The loss of data will complicate how much gas is released by the climate, the economic sector or the factory, and to track these emissions over time. This detail allows you to prosecute, experts say; The government cannot stop the country’s emissions without knowing where they come from.
“This will reduce the details and accuracy of the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions when most countries try to improve their reporting,” said Michael Hilenot, Executive Director of the Institute of Gazae. “It also complicates the climatic policy down the road.”
The program has been collecting emission data at least since 2010. Approximately 8,000 objects a year report their emissions. EPA representatives asked the program staff to develop a rule that will significantly reduce data collection. According to the new rules, its reporting requirements will only be extended to about 2300 objects in Some sectors of the oil and gas industry.
Climate experts expressed shock and disappointment about the obvious decision to stop collecting most information about the greenhouse gas emissions. “It would be a little similar to the shutdown of the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient who is seriously ill,” said Edward Maybach, Professor of George Meisson University. “How in the world can we manage this incredible threat to well -being and well -being in America if we don’t really keep track of what we do to worsen the problem?”
The EPA did not address the propublica questions about the Greenhouse Gaza Statue Program. Instead, the agency submitted a statement by an e -mail that confirms the Trump administration’s commitment to “clean air, land and water for every American”.
Agency announced last month that it was “Review” the reporting program on greenhouse gases. In a small, a pointed press release issued on March 12, when the EPA sent out 24 ballots when it noted “Most subsequent days of de -de -US history“The EPA Administrator called the reporting program” burdened.
The 2025 project, the right -wing Trump presidency, proposed a rigid scalable reporting program for greenhouse gases, and described it as a load on small business.
Unlike this, climatic experts say EPA reporting program, which is 85% to 90% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the US, is largely good for business. “A lot of companies count on data and use them in their annual stability reports,” said Edwin Lamir, the lawyer of the environmental protection. Companies also use data to demonstrate environmental progress for shareholders and to meet international reporting requirements. “If the program stops, all these valuable data will stop generating,” Lamir said.
According to Andrew Light, the loss of this data can have a devastating effect on the ability of the world as a result of the catastrophic influence of a warm climate, which held the post of Assistant Minister on International Affairs in the Biden Administration. The light noted that the appeal to dangerous and expensive extreme meteorological events requires international cooperation – and that our non -compliance with data can give other countries justification to abandon its own reporting.
“We will not get to the type of stabilization of the temperature necessary to protect the Americans from the worst climatic influences if we do not gain cooperation of developing countries,” the light said. “If the US does not even evaluate and report its own emissions, as in the world can you expect that China, India, Indonesia and other major developing countries do the same?”
In the first months, the Trump administration showed that it had reduced the support program. The EPA left the portal through which the companies share data, closed for a few weeks, and in March pushed the emission reporting. Then last Friday met with several staff of the program, raised additional questions about the fate of the future data collection, according to the sources that informed about the meeting and asked not to name it because of the fear of retribution.
At the meeting, the political appointed Abigal Tardif, who is the chief deputy assistant of the EPA Airport and Radiation Administrator, instructed the staff to develop a rule that would eliminate the requirements for reporting 40 of the 41 sectors that are now required to submit data to the program. Tardif did not respond to PROPBLICA’s requests about this story. Political appointed Aaron Sabo, who was present at the meeting and was waiting for confirmation as an office administrator, refused to answer questions by sending a reporter to EPA Communications staff.
Before coming to EPA, Tardif and Szabo worked as labels. Sabo represented the American Council on Chemistry and the Duke of Energy Among other companies and trading groups And Tardif worked in the oil and American fuel and petrochemical association.
Some climate supporters point out that the industry may take advantage of the requirements for greenhouse gas reports. “In essence, this is a distribution for emitters, just releasing them from the hook,” said Rachel Klitus, Senior Director for Climate and Energy in the Union of Interested Scientists.
The customer has released the choice to stop the emission documentation as an ostrich. “Not tracking data does not make the climatic crisis less real,” she said. “It’s just putting your head in the sand.”
