EPA Announces Additional Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Requirements

The EPA has finalized a regulation to require monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from magnesium production, underground coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment, and industrial waste landfills. If emissions meet the reporting threshold, that source must begin monitoring GHG emissions on January 1, 2011, and must submit a first annual report to the EPA by March 31, 2012.

This action adds these four source categories to the list of source categories already required to report greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA has now taken action on all outstanding source categories and subparts from the April 2009 proposal for the greenhouse gas reporting program.

These GHG reporting rules are generally the first steps toward implementing GHG emissions limits and related climate change regulations.

(This post was authored by Hamilton consulting Group's intern, Emily Kelchen, a third year law student at the University of Wisconsin Law School.)