(CNN) — The Trump administration on Friday proposed to end a program requiring coal-fired power plants, industrial factories and oil refining facilities to report their planet-warming pollution to the federal government.

The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has been active since 2010, compelling more than 8,000 facilities and suppliers in the United States to report their climate pollution every year, and uses the data to help shape rules to reduce the amount of pollution in the air.

The action taken Friday goes beyond instructions to some regulators to ramp down rule enforcement against the oil and gas industry, which CNN previously reported .

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin framed the new steps as a move to end burdensome regulations.

“The Greenhouse

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