ALBANY, New York — Power plants, factories, large dairy farms, landfills, fuel suppliers and other polluters based in New York will have to provide emissions reports to the state under new rules.
The Department of Environmental Conservation issued the final greenhouse gas reporting rules Monday. The reports will improve the granularity of emissions data and could support additional state regulations to reduce them.
Why it matters: Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has framed the new state program as backfilling potential federal rollbacks. The Trump administration has proposed largely eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas reporting requirements.
The reporting rule was originally part of the since-paused “cap and invest” proposal to support achieving the state’s 2019 climate law targets. It aimed to limit emissions and raise money for a clean energy transition.
