WASHINGTON – Today, in accordance with President Trump’s Day One executive orders, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposed rule to end the burdensome Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), saving American businesses up to $2.4 billion in regulatory costs while maintaining the agency’s statutory obligations under the Clean Air Act (CAA). 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. If finalized, the proposal would remove reporting obligations for most large facilities, all fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites.

“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,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin. “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.”

By reducing the overall regulatory burden, current regulated parties will be able to focus compliance expenditures on actual, tangible environmental benefits. As the agency continues to Power the Great American Comeback, this proposal represents a significant step toward streamlining operations, cutting unnecessary red tape, unleashing American energy, and advancing EPA’s core mission of protecting human health and the environment.

The GHGRP requires 47 source categories, covering over 8,000 facilities and suppliers in the U.S. to calculate and submit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting annually. Following a careful review, EPA proposed that there is no requirement under CAA section 114(a) to collect GHG emission information from businesses nor is continuing the ongoing costly data collection useful to fulfill any of the agency’s statutory obligations. Therefore, EPA is proposing to remove all GHG reporting requirements, except for those subject to the Waste Emissions Charge (WEC).

CAA section 136 only requires data collection for segments of subpart W (petroleum and natural gas systems) subject to the WEC. On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which amended CAA section 136(g), so that the WEC now applies to emissions reported for calendar year 2034 and for each year thereafter. In accordance with the law, EPA will not be collecting subpart W data until 2034.  

EPA will initiate a public comment period to solicit input. Further information on the public comment process and instructions for participation will be published in the Federal Register and on the EPA website.

For more information on the proposed rule and how to comment, please see EPA’s fact sheet here.

Background 

On March 12, 2025, Administrator Zeldin announced that the agency was reconsidering the GHGRP. This was announced in conjunction with a number of historic actions to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and Power the Great American Comeback. While accomplishing EPA’s core mission of protecting human health and the environment, the agency is committed to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to unleash American energy.

Congress authorized funding for the creation of the GHGRP in the Fiscal Year 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act. The Obama EPA promulgated the program and began collecting data in 2010. The GHGRP currently requires reporting of GHG data from certain large GHG emission sources, fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites.   

November 18, 2024, the Biden EPA issued the final WEC rule to implement the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s methane tax provisions. Congress amended the CAA by adding section 136, “Methane Emissions and Waste Reduction Incentive Program for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems.” Among other things, CAA section 136 (c)-(g) required EPA to impose and collect a waste emission charge on methane emissions that exceeded specified thresholds from applicable facilities that reported more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) of GHGs under the petroleum and natural gas systems subpart W source category.

On March 14, 2025, President Trump signed a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, disapproving the November 2024 final WEC rule.

        华盛顿——今日，根据特朗普总统上任首日签署的行政命令，美国环境保护局（EPA）署长李·泽尔丁宣布了一项拟议规则，旨在终止繁琐的温室气体报告计划（GHGRP），该计划预计可为美国企业节省高达24亿美元的监管成本，同时确保环境保护署履行《清洁空气法》（CAA）规定的法定义务。与《清洁空气法》下的其他强制性信息收集要求不同，温室气体报告计划与潜在的监管措施无直接关联，对改善人类健康和环境无实质性影响。若该提议最终确定，将免除大多数大型设施、所有燃料和工业气体供应商以及二氧化碳注入点的报告义务。

        “环境保护署与特朗普总统并肩，继续践行释放能源主导力、助力美国梦的承诺。温室气体报告计划不过是官僚主义的繁文缛节，对改善空气质量毫无裨益，”环境保护署署长泽尔丁表示，“相反，它给美国企业和制造业带来了数十亿美元的成本，推高了生活成本，危及国家繁荣，损害了美国社区的利益。通过这项提议，我们再次证明，履行环境保护署的法定义务与推动美国伟大复兴并非二选其一。”

        通过减轻整体监管负担，当前受监管方将能够把合规支出聚焦于实际、可感的环境效益上。随着环境保护署持续推动美国伟大复兴，这项提议是迈向简化运营、削减不必要的繁文缛节、释放美国能源潜力以及推进环境保护署保护人类健康和环境核心使命的重要一步。

温室气体报告计划要求涵盖47个来源类别的美国8000多家设施和供应商每年计算并提交温室气体（GHG）排放报告。经审慎审查，环境保护署提议，《清洁空气法》第114(a)条并未要求从企业收集温室气体排放信息，且继续进行当前高昂的数据收集工作对于履行环境保护署的任何法定义务均无裨益。因此，环境保护署提议取消所有温室气体报告要求，但受废弃物排放费（WEC）约束的类别除外。

        《清洁空气法》第136条仅要求对受废弃物排放费约束的W分部（石油和天然气系统）部分进行数据收集。2025年7月4日，特朗普总统签署了《宏伟法案》（One Big Beautiful Bill Act），修订了《清洁空气法》第136(g)条，规定废弃物排放费现适用于2034日历年及之后每年报告的排放。根据法律，环境保护署在2034年之前将不会收集W分部数据。

        环境保护署将启动公众意见征询期，以征求各方意见。有关公众意见征询流程及参与方式的更多信息，将在《联邦公报》和环境保护署网站上公布。

有关拟议规则及提交意见方式的更多信息，请参阅环境保护署的事实说明文件。

背景

        2025年3月12日，署长泽尔丁宣布，环境保护署正重新审视温室气体报告计划（GHGRP）。此举与推进特朗普总统上任首日行政命令及助力美国伟大复兴的一系列历史性行动同步宣布。在履行环境保护署保护人类健康和环境的核心使命的同时，该机构致力于兑现特朗普总统释放美国能源潜力的承诺。

国会在2008财年综合拨款法案中授权拨款创建温室气体报告计划。奥巴马政府时期的环境保护署颁布了该计划，并于2010年开始收集数据。目前，温室气体报告计划要求某些大型温室气体排放源、燃料和工业气体供应商以及二氧化碳注入点上报温室气体数据。

        2024年11月18日，拜登政府时期的环境保护署发布了废弃物排放费（WEC）最终规则，以落实2022年《通胀削减法案》中的甲烷税条款。国会修订了《清洁空气法》，新增第136条“石油和天然气系统甲烷排放与减排激励计划”。除其他内容外，《清洁空气法》第136条(c)-(g)款要求环境保护署对石油和天然气系统W分部来源类别下，报告温室气体排放量超过25,000公吨二氧化碳当量（MTCO2e）的适用设施，其超过规定阈值的甲烷排放征收废弃物排放费并予以收取。

        2025年3月14日，特朗普总统根据《国会审查法》签署了一项联合决议，否决了2024年11月发布的废弃物排放费最终规则。