EDF Experts Urge Trump EPA Not to Eliminate Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

(Washington, D.C. - October 1, 2025) Three experts from Environmental Defense Fund joined dozens of other Americans at a virtual hearing today and urged the Trump EPA to abandon its efforts to eliminate our nation's most critical source of climate pollution information.

For many years, the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has provided transparent and credible public information about climate pollution from some of the largest sources nationwide. It provides the foundational data we need to protect people from climate change and all its ensuing damages - from worsening floods, fires and heat waves, to rising insurance costs - but the Trump EPA has proposed getting rid of it.

Today EPA held a hearing for the public to comment on that proposal. Three EDF staff members testified, including Senior Attorney Edwin LaMair.

"Since its inception a decade and a half ago, the [Greenhouse Gas] Reporting Program has provided comprehensive information that is foundational to effective climate policy and the protection of public health and welfare … its data underpin[s] key EPA policies - including standards for power plants, oil and gas facilities, and landfills," said LaMair in his testimony. "Eliminating or delaying reporting would obscure pollution from public view, eroding confidence in emissions reductions ... We strongly oppose EPA's proposal."

This is not the first time the Trump EPA has attacked the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. Earlier this year, Administrator Lee Zeldin shut down the program's reporting portal for over a month without explanation and then unlawfully tried to delay the deadlines for companies to report their climate pollution. EDF filed a lawsuit challenging those actions. The Trump administration also refused to release this year's U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory - an annual accounting of pollution that uses Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program data. EDF got those documents through the Freedom of Information Act and made them publicly available on our website.

EDF Legal Fellow Leah Fattor and Intern Makayla Loveland also joined the crowds testifying today and called on EPA to preserve the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. You can see their full testimonies at the links below: