The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Request for Comments on the proposal to repeal the greenhouse gas pollution reporting rule opens up a major opportunity to make our voices heard and tell the government that fossil fuel pollution should be regulated. Speak up by clicking the links below to submit a comment. 

Here are the easy steps to submit your comment:

1. Draft or copy sample comment. Copy our sample comment, which can be found at the bottom of the page
2. Go to the website. CLICK HERE to reach the comment submission page.
3. Click the green button "Submit a Public Comment."
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Tell EPA To Maintain the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program! 

Sample Comment to COPY and AND THEN PASTE on the comment page on Regulations.gov 
(DON'T FORGET THE SECOND STEP!)

Dear Administrator Lee Zeldin, 

I am writing to express my profound concern over the proposed rule to repeal the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, and to urge the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind this proposal.  

Since 2009, the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has required more than 8,000 coal power plants, oil refineries, and oil wells to report their greenhouse gas emissions, allowing the public to transparently assess the environmental impacts of these industrial activities. This information has empowered communities across the country to take action – whether by helping key industries decrease their ecological toll, by allowing local and state legislatures to use emission data as they created innovative and environmentally-friendly policies, or by enabling communities to demand action to improve air quality. To repeal the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program would be a major setback in public trust and communities' abilities to make informed choices about their environments.

However, not only will this repeal impact public trust and engagement, it will also impact the health of communities across the country. Even as the EPA argues that the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program "has no material impact on human health," taxpayers across the country will feel the impacts on their health through increasingly intense extreme weather: heat-induced illness, exposure to contaminated flood waters, displacement caused by the complete destruction of their homes, and wildfire smoke inhalation, all worsened by allowing greenhouse gases to fuel the climate crisis. 

The EPA's move to repeal the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is consistent with its ongoing effort to relinquish scientific leadership, cede it to global competitors who are facing the climate crisis head-on, and force the American people to pay with their health, their homes, and through the increasing cost of living. The EPA must reverse course on this proposed rulemaking, and instead maintain the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. 

Sincerely,

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