WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that 28 industrial sectors started reporting greenhouse gas emissions.
The EPA said it expected to get its first greenhouse gas emissions data from roughly 7,000 emitters, including power plants, refineries and landfills, by the end of September.
The EPA is collecting the data using its electronic greenhouse gas reporting tool, dubbed e-GGRT.
"The data collected with e-GGRT will provide the public with important information about the nation's largest stationary sources of greenhouse gas pollution," the agency said in a statement.
The EPA said those in the industrial sector could use the data collected through the e-GGRT to not only cut emissions but work toward cost-saving and energy-efficiency measures.
Critics in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives said increased EPA regulations are getting in the way of economic recovery in the United States.
The American Petroleum Institute, a group representing more than 470 oil and natural gas companies, described greenhouse gas regulations as a threat to job growth in the U.S. economy.
