President Donald Trump is putting an end to an Environmental Protection Agency rule that dates back to the administration of Barack Obama.

The Daily Caller reported:

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly eliminating the requirement for industrial plants to collect and report their greenhouse gas emissions...

This is one of many moves of this kind that the Trump administration is making, trying to get away from the Democrats' green agenda.

These efforts are being spearheaded by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, the former congressman from New York who is now a part of the Trump administration.

The details

One of the first outlets to report on this story was ProPublica.

It explained:

The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program documents the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and other climate-warming gases emitted by individual facilities. The data, which is publicly available, guides policy decisions and constitutes a significant portion of the information the government submits to the international body that tallies global greenhouse gas pollution.

That reporting requirement will now be, in large part, scrapped, and this is expected to be beneficial to thousands of plants.

The outlet reported:

Roughly 8,000 facilities a year now report their emissions to the program. EPA officials have asked program staff to draft a rule that will drastically reduce data collection. Under the new rule, its reporting requirements would only apply to about 2,300 facilities in certain sectors of the oil and gas industry.

It is a big change, to say the least.

Eliminating the bureaucracy

Zelin has released a statement on the matter, arguing that this is another step toward eliminating the D.C. bureaucracy that does little good.

He said:

The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is another example of a bureaucratic government program that does not improve air quality. Instead, it costs American businesses and manufacturing millions of dollars, hurting small businesses and the ability to achieve the American Dream.

The EPA, in its statement, noted that this is one of "a number of historic actions to advance President Trump's Day One executive orders and Power the Great American Comeback."

It continued, "Combined, these announcements represent the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States."

The agency stated that Trump is looking to "unleash American energy, lower costs for Americans, revitalize the American auto industry, restore the rule of law, and give power back to states to make their own decisions. "