Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program: repeated delays and the proposal to end reporting for 46 of 47 source categories (2025-2026) Case In September 2025 EPA proposed to permanently end greenhouse-gas reporting for 46 of the 47 industry categories in its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, the nation's only mandatory facility-level emissions reporting, and to suspend most oil-and-gas reporting until 2034. EPA has not finalized the proposal but has twice pushed back the 2025 reporting deadline, most recently to March 2027 according to a report this week. The proposal and the delays EPA established the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program in 2009 in response to a congressional mandate. EPA says it is the only mandatory nationwide program providing facility-level reporting of emissions from large industrial sources, and that 85-90% of annual human-caused U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions are reported under it. Most data are public. In March 2025 Zeldin announced the agency would reconsider the program. In September 2025 EPA proposed permanently removing reporting obligations for 46 of its 47 source categories. For petroleum and natural gas systems (subpart W), it proposed removing the natural gas distribution segment permanently and suspending reporting for the other nine segments until reporting year 2034. EPA says it is responding to Executive Orders 14154 and 14192, which direct agencies to remove obstacles to domestic energy production and to eliminate 10 existing rules for each new one. It says the program imposes significant costs and does not directly improve public health or air quality. In March 2025 EPA extended the reporting deadline for 2024 data from March 31 to May 30, 2025. On Feb. 27, 2026 EPA finalized an extension of the 2025 reporting deadline from March 31 to Oct. 30, 2026, taking no final action on the rest of the September 2025 proposal. The Washington Examiner reported on Oct. 9, 2026 that EPA extended the 2025 reporting deadline again, to next March, roughly a year after reports were originally due, and that EPA has not finalized its decision to dismantle the program. What the sources do not establish The sources reviewed do not include the Federal Register notice for the latest deadline extension, or statements from investors, utilities or researchers who use the data. Perspectives Official position — EPA (as described by the Congressional Research Service) EPA says it is reconsidering the program in response to executive orders on energy production and deregulation, that the program imposes significant costs on reporters, and that the proposal would remove unnecessary administrative burdens from a program that does not directly improve public health or air quality. Expert view — Congressional Research Service CRS describes the program as the only mandatory nationwide source of facility-level emissions reporting from large industrial sources, according to EPA, with data that are mostly public and cover 85-90% of annual human-caused U.S. emissions, and sets out considerations for Congress about EPA's proposal. Editorial read — The Author (site author) The Author's view is that ending facility-level emissions reporting removes the public's ability to see who emits what, and that repeatedly delaying the deadline while the proposal is pending has the same effect in the meantime. This is interpretation. EPA says the program is costly and does not directly improve public health or air quality, and the proposal has not been finalized. Research notes Open leads: (1) the Federal Register notice for the latest deadline extension, which this entry knows only from a Washington Examiner report dated Oct. 9, 2026; (2) outside reactions, including utilities, investors and researchers who use the data; (3) the final status of the September 2025 proposal; (4) the relationship to the methane rules and the delayed methane fee, covered in separate entries. Note EPA says the program imposes significant costs and does not directly improve public health or air quality, and cites executive orders on deregulation. The Congressional Research Service says EPA reports the program covers 85-90% of human-caused U.S. emissions. The latest delay is reported by an outlet rated mixed on factual accuracy and should be confirmed in the Federal Register. Sources [1] Federal Register: Reconsideration of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (proposed rule) (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/16/2025-17923/reconsideration-of-the-greenhouse-gas-reporting-program) · 2025-09-16 [2] Federal Register: Extending the Reporting Deadline Under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule for 2025 (final rule) (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/27/2026-03995/extending-the-reporting-deadline-under-the-greenhouse-gas-reporting-rule-for-2025) · 2026-02-27 [3] Federal Register: Extending the Reporting Deadline Under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule for 2024 Data (final rule) (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/20/2025-04724/extending-the-reporting-deadline-under-the-greenhouse-gas-reporting-rule-for-2024-data) · 2025-03-20 [4] Congressional Research Service: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program: Overview and Considerations for Congress (https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R49348) · 2026-09-10 [5] Washington Examiner: Greenhouse gas reporting requirement delayed again (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-on-energy/4761756/daily-on-energy-greenhouse-gas-reporting-requirement-delayed-again/) · 2026-10-09 Connections Same context — Environmental deregulation under EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin EPA ties the reconsideration to the same executive orders on deregulation covered there. Related — Oil and gas methane rules: deadline extensions, relaxed flaring limits and the end of the methane fee (2025-2026) The proposal to suspend subpart W oil-and-gas reporting until 2034 sits alongside the methane rule delays covered there.