Here it comes

From Yahoo News

h/t to Adolfo Giurfa

EPA for the first time looks to mandate reporting of the gases linked to global warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government wants to require companies for the first time to disclose how much greenhouse gases they’re releasing.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing mandatory reporting of the gases blamed for global warming at approximately 13,000 facilities nationwide.

The facilities include refineries, automobile manufacturers, power plants, coal mines and large manure ponds at farms.

Together, the facilities account for about 85-90 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The EPA requires no reporting of greenhouse gases. The information will be needed if it decides to control greenhouse gases or if Congress passes a law limiting the pollution.

Companies would have to file their first reports in 2011.

Should the the EPA ever demand my report, I think I’ll follow Jim Hansen’s lead and do a little “civil disobedience”. Assuming the trend holds, I’d likely send back something like this:

(when you figure it out)