#greenhouse-gas-reporting

#greenhouse-gas-reporting

ExxonMobil has filed suit in federal court challenging two California laws that would require the oil giant to report the greenhouse emissions resulting from the use of its products globally. The 30-page complaint, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, argues that the laws violate the company's free speech rights by requiring it to "trumpet California's preferred message even though ExxonMobil believes the speech is misleading and misguided."

For nearly 20 years, thousands of industrial plants across the U.S. and California have been required to track and report the greenhouse gas pollution they spew into the atmosphere. This month, the Trump administration moved to permanently end that program, which has long held bipartisan support, originating during the administration of George W. Bush. President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee Zeldin, said that greenhouse gas reporting was expensive and burdensome, and that cutting the program would save American businesses up to $2.4 billion in regulatory costs.