Demand EPA Keep Pollution Reporting
Ending pollution reporting doesn’t erase the problem of climate change — it buries it, making solutions more costly and complex. Join us in demanding that the oil and gas industry’s climate pollution stays in the public eye.
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Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0186
To: EPA Administrator Zeldin,
With deep concern for the health of our communities and the future of our climate, the undersigned write to urge EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to uphold the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program and not suspend subpart W oil and gas methane reporting as proposed.
Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a climate pollutant that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming our planet, contributing to roughly one-third of the warming we have already experienced. Its unchecked emissions drive increasingly severe weather events — floods, wildfires and heatwaves — that threaten people across the country.
In addition, controlling methane leaks also curbs other dangerous pollutants like smog-forming volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and cancer-causing air toxics. Taking action to boost efficiency and cut methane is rooted in reliable data collection – a delay will only make inevitable climate impacts harder to deal with.
Congress directed the EPA to develop the GHGRP and it’s been in place and used by EPA and a wide range of other federal and state agencies, industry, NGOs, and other stakeholders for 15 years. Getting in the way of these fundamental requirements will reduce public trust in a company’s ability to fulfill emissions requirements and thereby undermine the competitiveness of American companies in global markets – not to mention it will leave our public health on the chopping block.
As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress directed the EPA to update subpart W oil and gas methane reporting to ensure it is empirically-based and accurate. It is deeply troubling that Administrator Zeldin has proposed to obscure and eliminate pollution data, allowing industry polluters to emit even more harmful pollution under the radar - a clear violation of the EPA’s Congressional directive and the principles of data transparency.
We call on EPA Administrator Zeldin to prioritize the health and safety of people across the U.S. and rescind its proposal to eliminate the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program and suspend subpart W oil and gas methane reporting. Our climate, our communities and our future demand nothing less.
Thank you.