by Shane Henson — August 29, 2011—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new tool to allow 28 industrial sectors to submit their 2010 greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution data electronically. According to the EPA, the data collected with e-GGRT will provide the public with vital information about the nation’s largest stationary sources of greenhouse gas pollution.
Just as important, facilities managers in all industrial sectors as well as public institutions and private corporations can use the online data to benchmark their own emissions with similar facilities and learn how to reduce their company’s carbon pollution while saving money and increasing energy efficiency.
The EPA expects to receive 2010 GHG data from approximately 7,000 large industrial GHG emitters and suppliers, including power plants, petroleum refineries and landfills.
The EPA’s GHG Reporting Program, launched in October 2009, requires the reporting of GHG data from large emission sources across a range of industry sectors. Suppliers of products that would emit GHGs if released, combusted, or oxidized are also required to report GHG data. Under this program, covered entities are required to submit GHG data to the EPA annually, and the first round of data will be submitted electronically by September 30, 2011. The EPA plans to publish non-confidential GHG data collected through the GHGRP by the end of 2011.
