In a recent bipartisan letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) urged the agency to reconsider its pending repeal of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). In a new insight, Director of Energy and Environmental Policy Shuting Pomerleau walks through the Trump Administration’s proposal to eliminate most of the mandatory emissions reporting program and the potential downsides of the action.

Key points:

• EPA’s proposed rule, released in September, would remove all the emissions reporting requirements under the GHGRP, except for those subject to the methane emissions tax starting in 2034 as codified in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
• The proposed rule is part of the Trump Administration’s broad energy agenda to boost U.S. oil and gas production; the EPA estimates that removing the reporting requirements would yield more than $300 million per year in savings for impacted businesses.
• Eliminating this reporting requirement would make it more difficult to enact informed public policy and could further complicate the federal government’s ability to determine eligibility for certain tax credits.

Read the analysis.