Background:

The Green House Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) requires the reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) data and other relevant information from large GHG emission sources, fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO₂ injection sites in the United States. Approximately 8,000 facilities are required to report their emissions annually, including facilities who are direct emitters, indirect emitters (suppliers of products that create green house gasses), and injection sites.

For a complete guide to GHG Annual Emissions, including gackground information on GHGRP, details on who must submit, key deadlines, etc. please see the following page: GHG Inventory

Deadline Extension:

Effective March 20th, 2025, the EPA published an extension to the GHGRP for the reporting year of 2024. The rule clearly states that this extension is only for the reporting year of 2024, pushing the deadline from March 31, 2025, to May 30, 2025.

The excerpt below describes the extension and the underlying reason for the 2024 reporting extension. This excerpt is found in the final action of the EPA’s final rule: [EPA–HQ–OAR–2025–0096; FRL–12676–01–OAR]

“EPA is amending subpart A (General Provisions) at 40 CFR 98.3(b) to extend the reporting deadline for annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reports for reporting year 2024 from March 31, 2025, to May 30, 2025. This one-time extension of the reporting deadline will ensure that regulated entities have adequate time to interact with the reporting software to prepare and submit the annual GHG reports required under the existing rule. Facilities and suppliers are required to submit each GHG report ‘‘electronically in accordance with’’ specified regulatory requirements and in ‘‘a format specified by the Administrator’’ as stated at 40 CFR 98.5(a). EPA has required electronic reporting and provided an electronic reporting system, the electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (hereafter refer to as ‘‘e-GGRT’’), for facilities and suppliers since 2010 to prepare and submit annual GHG reports.

 

Historically, EPA has launched the eGGRT system in mid-February for a given reporting year. As a result, regulated entities have generally had a six-week period to work in the e-GGRT system to prepare and submit their annual GHG reports. As of March 2025, the e-GGRT system has not been launched, and as a result, facilities have not had adequate time to interact with the reporting system to prepare and submit their annual GHG reports for reporting year 2024. For this reason, EPA is extending the GHGRP reporting deadline for annual GHG reports for reporting year 2024 from March 31, 2025, to May 30, 2025.” 

Additional information regarding the GHG Reporting, e-GGRT news or the e-GGRT tool itself can be found below:

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