Big Emitters to EPA: "Don't Ask, Won't Tell"

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AP reports today: โ€œSome of the countryโ€™s largest emitters of heat-trapping gases, including businesses that publicly support efforts to curb global warming, donโ€™t want the public knowing exactly how much they pollute. Oil producers and refiners, along with manufacturers of steel, aluminum and even home appliances, are fighting a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency that would make the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that companies release – and the underlying data businesses use to calculate the amounts – available online.โ€

A spokesperson for Honeywell argued,ย โ€œThere is no need for the public to have information beyond what is entering the atmosphere.โ€ ย Read the story here.

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