On September 16, 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposal to eliminate the vast majority of its longstanding Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), which requires thousands of facilities and organizations to report annual emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (40 CFR part 98). (I’ve written about this program over the years, most recently when EPA issued massive revisions in April 2024 (see HERE). The remainder of this note briefly summarizes EPA’s latest interpretation and identifies the small portion EPA proposes to retain, and the existing GHGRP.
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EPA proposes to eliminate most mandatory greenhouse gas emission reporting requirements
Posted by Jon Elliott on Fri, Oct 03, 2025
Tags: EPA, Greenhouse Gas, Clean Air Act, Climate, Environmental Compliance, EPA Regulations, EPA Standards, GHG Reporting, EPA enforcement, Climate Disclosure, Climate Risk, Air Quality
EPA narrows criminal enforcement to follow administration priorities
Posted by Jon Elliott on Fri, Sep 05, 2025
The US environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to narrow its enforcement focus in order to follow Trump administration priorities. I recently wrote about EPA’s May 2025 statement of new enforcement policies (I wrote about that memo HERE). Now, EPA has announced further changes, to align its activities with the President’s Executive Order “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations” (EO 14294). The remainder of this note summarizes these changes.
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Tags: EPA, Environmental Policy, Environmental Compliance, EPA Regulations, EPA Standards, Trump Administration, Environmental Health and Safety, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA enforcement
EPA realigns enforcement policies to match new administration
Posted by Jon Elliott on Fri, May 09, 2025
On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a memorandum announcing significant revisions to the agency’s enforcement policies, entitled “Implementing National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives Consistently with Executive Orders and Agency Priorities.” The memo directs EPA’s civil and criminal enforcement staffs, revising existing Biden-era policies (which I last wrote about HERE) to conform with President Trump’s executive orders (EOs) and policy statements by new EPA administrator Zeldin. The remainder of this note summarizes this new direction.
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