U.S. EPA Declines Extension of Comment Period for Proposed Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Rule

Although over 20 trade associations submitted requests for extensions of the comment period for the Proposed Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Rule, U.S. EPA posted a letter to the American Petroleum Institute (API) stating that the formal comment period will NOT be extended past June 9, 2009.  In the posted letter, U.S. EPA states that the decline for the extension is “due to the time sensitive nature of this rulemaking and the urgent need to finalize it to allow for 2010 data collection….”