The burning of coal emits carbon the worst, followed by combustion of oil and gas-- including fracked gas, extreme in methane.
ProPublica, the nonprofit news platform, last week disclosed that the EPA "is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change. The move, ordered by a Trump appointee [Zeldin], would affect thousands of industrial facilities across the country, including oil refineries, power plants and coal mines as well as those that make petrochemicals, cement, glass, iron and steel, according to documents reviewed by ProPublica."
The Greenhouse Gas Reporting program documents the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and other climate-warming gases emitted by individual facilities. The data "guides policy decisions". Losing the data will make it harder to know how much climate-warming gas an economic sector or factory is emitting and to track those emissions over time," said ProPublica.
It quoted Professor Edward Maibach of George Mason University in Virginia saying it was "like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill. How in the world can we possibly manage this incredible threat to America's well-being and humanity's well-being if we're not actually monitoring what we're doing to exacerbate the problem."
The Guardian newspaper in January cited an analysis by the group Climate Power as key to Trump pro-fossil fuel policies. The Guardian reported: "Big oil spent a stunning $445 million through the last election cycle to influence Donald Trump and Congress, a new analysis has found" and which projected that the "investments" are "likely to pay dividends".
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