API Cites Burdens In Call For EPA To Scale Back New GHG Reporting Rule

摘要

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is citing concerns about major new regulatory burdens in its call for EPA to scale back its proposed new greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting mandates for the sector, warning the agency is "grossly" underestimating the costs and technological problems associated with its planned requirements. Speaking to a Jan. 8 public hearing on EPA's proposal to extend the portion of the reporting rules known as "Sub-part W" to several new energy sector sources, Karin Ritter, regulatory and scientific affairs manager for API, said the agency's estimates of 73,000 hours and $7.2 million in burdens are "arbitrarily low by orders of magnitude."