Audrey Streb
DCNF Energy Reporter
The Trump administration is moving to scrap an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program projected to save American businesses up to $2.4 billion in regulatory costs, according to the agency.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed a rule Friday to eliminate the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), which requires certain companies and facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions data and “other relevant information,” according to the agency. This marks the latest deregulatory move from Zeldin, who on July 29 proposed rolling back the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which energy sector experts have explained to the Daily Caller News Foundation previously is a cornerstone Obama-era regulation that has been used to impose draconian rules on power plants.
“Alongside President Trump, EPA continues to live up to the promise of unleashing energy dominance that powers the American Dream. The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is nothing more than bureaucratic red tape that does nothing to improve air quality,” Zeldin said on Friday. “Instead, it costs American businesses and manufacturing billions of dollars, driving up the cost of living, jeopardizing our nation’s prosperity and hurting American communities. With this proposal, we show once again that fulfilling EPA’s statutory obligations and Powering the Great American Comeback is not a binary choice.” (RELATED: Trump EPA Reportedly Axing Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure Rule
The EPA said the change could save American businesses as much as $2.4 billion in compliance costs, while still meeting applicable Clean Air Act (CAA) statutory requirements. Congress provided the EPA $3.5 million in 2008 under the Consolidated Appropriations Act to begin the GHGRP, which was later “promulgated” by former President Barack Obama and began collecting data in 2010, according to the agency.
The rule change would strip companies of a “costly” regulatory burden that adds up to $2.4 billion, according to the EPA. The agency argues that by “reducing the overall regulatory burden,” companies that must now report could channel compliance costs and efforts towards “actual, tangible environmental benefits.”
“Unlike other mandatory information collections under the CAA, the GHGRP is not directly related to a potential regulation and has no material impact on improving human health and the environment,” the EPA said Friday. “If finalized, the proposal would remove reporting obligations for most large facilities, all fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites.”
Zeldin has made several other deregulatory moves in line with President Donald Trump’s agenda to “unleash American energy” and to initiate the “great American comeback,” according to the EPA. Ahead of announcing the plan for axing the Endangerment Finding, he said on the conservative podcast Ruthless that “repealing it will be the largest deregulatory action in the history of America.”
The EPA initially announced that it was reconsidering the program on March 12, and the proposed rule must still go through the federal rulemaking process and will be open for public comment.
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2.4 billion dollars per year?!
It costs a lot of money to count carbon dioxide!
But the molecule is so tiny that it takes a small army to find it.
Or one Greta 😉
Yeah, really. What ever happened to basic high school chemistry stoichiometry?
Imagine the real good that could have come from that spending. Reducing the debt alone would greatly improve the lives of most Americans.
Most of the money was being spent by companies. Collecting and reporting the data.
That’s what they mean when they talk about regulatory costs. That is the amount of money companies have to spend in order to comply with regulations.
You need to study economic theory…especially the “Modern” type. Somebody will be $2.4 Billion poorer….so there is no gain or loss…
You need to study up on economic theory. Spending money on what the government wants you to spend it on, rather than using it to meet the needs of the company, always makes the company poorer.
If your thinking was true, government taxes would have no impact on the economy. After all, for every person made poorer by taxes, somebody would be made richer by the spending.
The company, perhaps, the consumers, definitely.
On the flip side, if prices come down, the the tax revenues from sales will also decline. Nothing is without natural consequences.
On the third side, consumers with more money will spend more money and the sales tax revenues will benefit. There is no single “control knob.”
This is spread out among many companies throughout the country.
Who then pass the costs onto their customers. It’s another bleed the poor program. Blood money. Squeeze Americans until they squeak. Hahaha. The Left hates this country. Any knife in the back, no matter how useless, is just what they want.
Yes, I know. That $2.4 billion is coming out of private companies. That’s a lot of money to take out of private companies every year, for no good reason.
spread out among many companies…
This is a fact. I do not see the rational for down votes.
They probably have to hire people with a PhD in CO2 molecule counting from Hah-vid. 🙂
Somebody will be $2.4 Billion poorer….where’s your sympathy ?
I have no sympathy for someone who loses an income stream based on stealing money from others.
You have no idea…crazy.
Lee Zeldin lost the 2022 election for NY Governor but is making up for it massively at the EPA with his rapid-fire actions as Administrator. I will have to compose a comment when this new NPRM shows up in the Federal Register.
I’m originally from NY. Moved 35 years ago. What a Political Freak Show.
From where I sit, its hard not to blame New Yorkers who vote stupid.
The only thing I can like about the Governor is that she sounds like the girls in my High School (Buffalo accent).
While these rule changes are great, they can all be reversed by a future administration. What we really need is for Congress to amend the Clean Air Act to specifically exclude carbon dioxide from the EPA’s jurisdiction.
At this time, it’s best not to waste time on things that can’t happen. The Republicans only have a small lead in both houses, and when you add in the Republican squishes who are afraid to anger the Democrats and the media (but I repeat mystelf), Any such effort would be a big fight that has no chance of victory. Beyond that, a large fight followed by defeat would rob the Republicans of political momentum. Meaning everything else Trump wants to do, will be harder.
If the Republicans win big at the mid-terms, that would be the time to tackle such projects.
Sun Tzu, in The Art of War, emphasized picking battles wisely by knowing when to fight and when not to fight, reserving strength for when it matters most, and avoiding losing causes.
He stated that the supreme excellence is to break the enemy’s resistance without fighting, highlighting the importance of strategy over brute force.
He also advised that if a battle cannot be won, you should not fight it, and that it is better to win the overall “war” than to sacrifice everything in one fight.
Or… eventually we should have a SCOTUS ruling that the CAA does not allow EPA to regulate CO2 and thus it would take an act of congress to amend the CAA to allow it. That is very unlikely to happen.
CO2 injection sites ? ? ?
Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program
and its $1.7 Billion price tag read about that here
Nice opportunity for DOE Secretary, Chris Wright.
CO2 is often injected during well operations. Perhaps that is the better reference?
This Video highlights the fight that the world is in and is a celebration of the voices that speak truth to power. These climate scientists have put everything on the life to fight for what is right.
https://app.screencast.com/jwCizhbKhiVVH
OT
Can you put it back so we don’t have to log in everyday?
I thought it was just me.
Interesting:
I have a “Premium Membership” and have not had to “log in” since December of 2024.
I only needed to login after conversion, then again after reversion.
This morning I was still logged in.
Me, too.
Story tip: Decarbonising Death
Funerals Should Comply With Net Zero, Says Labour https://dailysceptic.org/2025/09/14/funerals-should-comply-with-net-zero-says-labour/
Dying is getting even more expensive
In Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput), the Lilliputians reveal themselves to be a people who put a great emphasis on trivial matters. (Wiki ref)
The United States’ national administration, states, cities, and other agencies have been emphasizing many trivial matters. Interference in people’s affairs have grown exponentially. The Trump folks are the first in my memory that are reversing this trend.
Not all attempts have been useless. Cleaning up air pollution following the 1948 Donora death fog is an example. This is often cited as the event spurring the clean-air movement in the United States.
Doesn’t Gulliver’s Travels include two nations that are at war over the right way to crack an egg?
That’s as powerful as the dystopian 1984, but is less well known.
Also schools that teach by having students eat pieces of paper with information written on them.
More like a Non Bidenary choice
Now that is one bad pun…true, but bad.
So bad, it’s good.
If the Trump administration keeps on poking a finger in the eye of the Carbonistas, pretty soon they’ll go blind.
Oh no.
Go blind or get really really Greta’d.
More good news. We need to do lots more stuff like this.