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Affirms the value and impacts of the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program and warns against its repeal or rollback.
The bill preserves public, standardized facility-level emissions data—supporting regulation, environmental justice, and market transparency—at the cost of continued federal administrative expense and potential reporting or reputational burdens on regulated entities.
State and local governments and the public keep comprehensive facility-level greenhouse gas data, enabling better regulation, local climate planning, and public oversight of emissions.
Environmental justice and frontline communities retain access to emissions and co-pollutant information they need to advocate for cleaner air and hold polluters accountable.
Federal programs and policymaking (e.g., NSPS, BACT, tax credit administration, DOE modeling) remain informed by standardized emissions data, supporting consistent and data-driven regulatory decisions.
Maintaining the federal reporting Program requires EPA resources and administrative effort, creating federal costs that ultimately affect taxpayers and agency capacity.
Continued public disclosure of facility emissions can expose companies—especially small businesses—to reputational or competitive pressures that may increase compliance and mitigation costs.
Keeping federal reporting requirements may duplicate some state reporting obligations, imposing additional reporting burdens on regulated facilities and state governments.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Official title: Recognizing the importance of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program to protect the United States scientific integrity, public health, environment, and economic growth.
Introduced April 30, 2026 by Luz M. Rivas · Last progress April 30, 2026
Affirms the value and public-interest role of the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, describing what the program tracks (large sources, suppliers, and CO2 injection sites), the scale of coverage (about 8,000 facilities and roughly 3 billion metric tons CO2e, ~85–90% of U.S. emissions), and the federal programs and tools that rely on its data. The preamble warns that repealing or rolling back the program would reduce transparency, raise costs for states, and disproportionately harm racial and low-income communities that face greater pollution burdens.