Scott Pruitt's new version of the EPA, fossil fuel companies will no longer be required to divulge i
Scott Pruitt's new version of the EPA, fossil fuel companies will no longer be required to divulge information pertaining to their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Sarah Emerson
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IN BRIEF
Under Scott Pruitt's new version of the EPA, fossil fuel companies will no longer be required to divulge information pertaining to their greenhouse gas emissions.
The agency charged with protecting the environment is perhaps the most vulnerable agency in the federal government under the new administration.
LOOSENING THE REIGNS
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will no longer ask fossil fuel companies to reveal their emissions of certain greenhouse gases. The decision bears the mark of new EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has fought the agency on behalf of oil and gas companies for years.
Last year, pursuant to the Clean Air Act, the EPA sent letters to more than 15,000 oil and gas companies. The letters requested information about methane and volatile organic compound (VOC) sources to inform future industry standards. This data would’ve helped the agency to fight climate change, protect air quality, and safeguard human health across the nation.
As if the need for emissions reporting was ever questionable, Pruitt has given companies free reign to pollute with plausible deniability. Several attorneys general from fossil fuel-producing states sent a letter to Pruitt yesterday, urging him to withdraw the EPA’s request. Today he made the change.
“It’s absurd that one of Scott Pruitt’s first acts is to refuse information on a dangerous pollutant,” said Melinda Pierce, legislative director at the Sierra Club.
More:
https://futurism.com/epa-fossil-fuels-companies-no-longer-need-to-report-emissions/
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