EPA Issues Final Rule for Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Four Emissions Sources

On June 28, 2010, EPA signed a final rule for Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases from Magnesium Production facilities, Underground Coal Mines, Industrial Wastewater Treatment facilities, and Industrial Waste Landfills, thereby adding these four source categories to the list of source categories already required to report greenhouse gas emissions ("GHGs") under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program set forth at 40 C.F.R. Part 98. Importantly, in this final rule, EPA decided not to include ethanol production and food processing facilities as distinct subparts in the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, and also decided not to impose reporting requirements on coal suppliers at this time.