OMB Clears Confidential Information Rule for Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

—The White House Office of Management and Budget Sept. 15 cleared a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency that will guide electronics manufacturing and seven other broad industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions on whether their data will be considered confidential and thus not released to the public.

House Republicans Seek to Deny EPA Use of Appropriated Funds for Climate Programs

The House July 27 approved a measure that would halve funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas reporting registry in fiscal year 2012 and another that would transfer $50 million from EPA’s Climate Change Program to the Great Lakes Restoration initiative, two of a series of amendments being offered to a bill (H.R. 2584) to fund EPA and related agencies…

EPA Proposal Would Allow Energy Companies to Use Alternative Emissions Calculations Through 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to allow oil and natural gas operations to use alternative emissions calculations through 2011 without obtaining prior approval from the agency under a greenhouse gas reporting rule, according to a proposed rule to be published in the Federal Register June 27…

EPA Final Rule Specifies What Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data Will Be Public, What Will Be Confidential

Industrial facilities’ greenhouse gas emissions and the calculations and test methods used to measure them are public information and will not be treated as confidential business information, the Environmental Protection Agency said in a final rule to be published in the Federal Register May 26…

Oil, Gas Industry Groups File Petitions over EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Three industry groups have filed petitions with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit aimed at changing elements of an Environmental Protection Agency rule that will require oil and natural gas companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions…

EPA Sends OMB Final Rule to Designate Public, Confidential Greenhouse Gas Data

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Environmental Protection Agency sent the White House Office of Management and Budget a final rule Jan. 21 that would make public certain information on greenhouse gas emissions from all facilities reporting emissions, but withhold other information as…

EPA Outlook 2011: Agency Moving Forward with Regulation in Face of Mounting Opposition, Litigation

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Environmental Protection Agency plans to move forward with regulations to control greenhouse gas emissions in 2011, even as calls grow in Congress to take away EPA authority over those…

EPA Postpones Deadline for Submitting Data for Tallying Greenhouse Gas Emissions

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Environmental Protection Agency announced Dec. 20 that it is postponing until Aug. 31 the deadline for facilities to submit certain data used to calculate their 2010 greenhouse gas emissions so that it can…

EPA Final Rule on Greenhouse Gas Reporting Targets Methane from Oil, Gas Wells

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A final rule announced Nov. 9 by the Environmental Protection Agency will require the oil and natural gas industry to monitor and report emissions of…

EPA Emissions Reporting Rule Changes to Require Data on Ownership, Cogeneration

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Companies that report greenhouse gas emissions under the Environmental Protection Agency’s reporting program will have to provide information on their corporate…

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