Michigan Businesses Now Forced to Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions to EPA

Michigan businesses are now subject to a greenhouse gas reporting rule (source). This is a new regulation that just takes effect this year, and is going to cost local businesses time and money to figure out if the rule effects them and then more time and money to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions. In my opinion, that time and money could be spent providing jobs, services, healthcare, and profits to our good state instead of satisfying this Obama-administration requirement.

These Obama policies make local companies spend their money and time calculating their greenhouse emissions and then reporting that data to the EPA. That process is complicated, and as much as I appreciate readers from Bodmann LLP, I don't want companies in Michigan spending all their time and money hiring lawyers and filing paperwork- I'd much prefer they be doing something profitable instead.

But yet, this is what happens when Democrats run Congress and the Presidency. They pass regulations and laws that direct resources away from efficient private businesses that provide jobs and goods into inefficient areas that produce paperwork and reports. Rather than having a company here in Michigan determine whether they are covered by this new EPA rule and, if so, developing the information needed to comply with extensive government regulations, I'd much rather these companies were productive and efficient with their resources.