Filling the Federal Gap: EIA Launches Platform to Preserve Public Climate Data
May 6, 2026, Washington, DC: The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today announced the launch of its Emissions Monitoring and Accountability Platform (EMAP). EMAP is an interactive, web-based mapping tool to visualize and analyze greenhouse gas data that was previously reported by large industrial facilities and suppliers to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). EMAP is designed to maintain the transparency and interactiveness of the GHGRP’s facility-level information while also providing additional emissions data, such as EIA’s independent investigations on chemical manufacturers’ unreported GHG emissions.
“Public emissions data is the backbone of climate accountability and foundational to informed decision-making, scientific integrity and community protection,” said Avipsa Mahapatra, EIA US Climate Campaign Director. “With the GHGRP under threat, EMAP steps in to preserve critical historical U.S. emissions data, and to push beyond industry self-reporting to reveal the true scale of climate pollution. This public resource platform will ensure that policymakers and communities have the information needed to hold polluters accountable.”
On September 12, 2025, the EPA proposed a rule to sunset the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. If finalized, this rulemaking would significantly reduce the amount of data collected and potentially impact the future public availability of 14 years of historical GHG emissions and supply data. The maintenance of such data is critical to inform policy makers, academia, and the public at large to better understand the scope of GHG emissions globally and the impact that these emissions have on vulnerable populations.
To that end, EIA has created the Emissions Monitoring and Accountability Platform (EMAP) as a depository of the historical GHG data reported to GHGRP, including the 2024 data – obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. EIA is ensuring this GHG data is preserved and continues to be readily available, particularly to states that rely on this data to inform their citizens.
Additionally, EMAP is designed to integrate emissions data from sources other than self-reported data submitted by the industry, such as EIA investigations, to create a more complete picture of the climate impact. EIA stands ready to partner with NGOs, government entities, academia, community groups, industry leaders and others to build a next-generation, publicly accessible platform that supports continued public accountability.
Julius Banks, former EPA Chief of the GHGRP and current EIA US Senior Technical Lead, states, “In the absence of government action, it is our civic responsibility to preserve the historical GHGRP data. The transparent nature of this data has been shown to reduce GHG emissions and also informs vulnerable populations, and the public at large, of the sources and quantities of GHG emissions originating from their communities. We welcome collaboration with other civic-minded organizations, academia, governments, and industry to join us in this ongoing effort to quantify and publicly provide GHG emissions data to the general public.”
EMAP is not endorsed by the U.S. EPA (nor any other Federal Agency or Department).
Contact
Holly Koch, Communications and Media Lead, EIA US – [email protected]