CAC: TRUMP AND ZELDIN PROPOSE TO GASLIGHT AMERICANS BY HIDING CLIMATE POLLUTION DATA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2025
CONTACT: Katie Valentine, kvalentine@cacampaign.org, 770 861 0397
CAC: TRUMP AND ZELDIN PROPOSE TO GASLIGHT AMERICANS BY HIDING CLIMATE POLLUTION DATA
WASHINGTON–Today, the Trump Administration and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed ending the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. The rule would eliminate reporting obligations for major industrial polluters and exempt petroleum companies from reporting until 2034, significantly scaling back federal greenhouse gas data collection and eliminating an important tool used to cut pollution, minimize wasted energy, and save money. Margie Alt, Director of the Climate Action Campaign (CAC), issued the following statement:
“The Trump Administration’s latest pro-polluter move to eliminate the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is just another brazen step in their Polluters First agenda.
Under the guise of saving Americans money, this is an attempt on the part of Trump, Lee Zeldin and their polluter buddies to hide the ball and avoid responsibility for the deadly, dangerous and expensive pollution they produce. If they succeed, the nation’s biggest polluters will spew climate-wrecking pollution without accountability.
Gutting the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program would give polluters a free pass to hide their true impact, leaving American families with dirtier air, rising health risks, and escalating climate disasters with no information about who is responsible.
The idea that tracking pollution does ‘nothing to improve air quality’ is absurd. If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Hiding information and allowing fossil fuel companies to avoid accountability are the true goals of this rule. EPA’s mission is to protect people, not polluters. Not the other way around as Trump, Zeldin and their fossil fuel friends seem to think.”
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Climate Action Campaign (CAC) is a vibrant coalition of advocacy organizations working together to drive ambitious, durable federal action to cut carbon pollution, address the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, and accelerate the transition to clean energy. Our goal is to reduce carbon pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy through policies focused on climate, justice, and jobs and expanding opportunity for all.
