The Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to end a decadeslong emissions reporting rule place a new roadblock to undermine climate action by weakening oversight of the largest polluters, critics and environmentalists said. 

The EPA announced on Friday it would propose a rule to repeal the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which requires large polluters to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The program has collected annual emissions data from nearly 8,000 large industrial facilities and other sources since 2011.