Are Canadian facility-level air pollution and GHG reporting standard comparable to the US reporting rules?
The answer is: absolutely not, a complaint the US EPA has repeatedly registered under the Canada-US Air Quality Agreement since 1991. W-M stipulates that Canada’s mandates will not be deemed “comparable” until we promulgate facility-level reporting rules similar to the US’s and share the raw data that Environment Canada collects from Canadian facilities directly with the US EPA. Environment Canada’s other top priority has to be to promulgate Canadian facility-level emission reporting mandates that are “comparable” (but not identical) to the US reporting standards Is Canada’s GHG Offset System comparable in scope and stringency to the US system? If Environment Canada implements the Offset System as it is currently proposed, the answer is: absolutely not (see below). W-M does not allow US regulated entities to import Offset Credits from developed nations (i.e. Canada). But W-M does say that the US has to determine that a developed nation’s Offset System is “comparable” to the US system a
