EPA Proposes Auto Makers Report Emissions Levels

The Environmental Protection Agency proposes what it calls the first comprehensive national system for reporting carbon-dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions from major sources, including automobiles.

The EPA expects the reporting requirement will cost the private sector $160 million in the first year, and $127 million annually in subsequent years. The EPA would like to make the first report due in 2011 for the 2010 calendar year, although auto makers would begin reporting ...