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Gov/Politics

Trump Demolishes U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2025 ENS – The reporting of industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a complex system that serves both national and international reporting requirements to mitigate climate change, is being dismantled by the Trump administration. […]

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Energy

U.S. EPA Slaps Fee on Wasteful Methane Emissions

WASHINGTON, DC, November 12, 2024 (ENS) – As global leaders gather today in Baku, Azerbaijan for the United Nations annual conference to limit climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency delivered a final rule to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by charging for waste emissions. […]

Air/Climate

Canada’s Top Court Upholds Trudeau’s Carbon Tax

OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, March 25, 2021 (ENS) – In a political win for Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Supreme Court of Canada today ruled that the Liberal Government’s carbon tax law is constitutional because climate change is a threat to the entire country and demands a coordinated national approach. […]