Client Alert: EPA Requires Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for 2010

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has signed a new environmental reporting requirement for many United States facilities.  Starting in 2010, approximately 10,000 facilities emitting approximately eighty-five percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emission will have to file yearly reports to the EPA.

Under the rule, suppliers of fossil fuels, certain manufacturers of vehicles and engines and facilities that emit 25,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions are required to submit annual reports.  Thirty-one of forty-two emission source categories are covered by this rule. The first emissions reports will be due on March 31, 2011 (for 2010 emissions).

This reporting requirement is seen as a step in mandatory regulation of the emissions.  Click here for further details from the EPA website.

You can contact Nexsen Pruet Environmental Law attorney, James Potter, via email at jpotter@nexsenpruet.com or by phone at 803.771.8900.