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MWV Continues to Challenge EPA's proposed Boiler MACT Standard and Cumulative Impacts - Future Air Regulations

MWV is engaged in advocacy efforts to press the Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make major changes to its Boiler Maximum Achievable Technology (Boiler MACT) air standard. The rule includes emission limits for industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers using fossil fuels and biomass.  Achievement of the limits established in this rule would require installation of up to four different air pollution control devices that will conflict with other existing control requirements and could impose tens of billions of dollars in unnecessary costs at thousands of manufacturing facilities across the country.

MWV is part of a broader manufacturing coalition effort on Boiler MACT, pressing for administrative changes, while also pursuing legal and legislative remedies.  MWV is also urging Congress to advance legislation to impose a halt to the current proposal with direction to the agency to overhaul its proposal.  This summer on Capitol Hill, bills were introduced, in both the House and Senate (the EPA Regulatory Relief Act - H.R. 2250/S. 1392), which would stay the existing EPA rule and require the agency to redo and establish workable requirements on boilers (see link below).  MWV is pressing for the enactment of this legislation in 2011.

• Floor Vote Tally - House Passes Boiler MACT Bill (H.R. 2250) 10-13-11
• Business Coalition Letter to Congress Supporting Boiler MACT Bills 9-6-11
• AF&PA Study Summary - September 2011
• Fisher Economic Impact of Pending Air Regulations - September 2011
• WSJ Editorial - Another EPA Rule Comes Under Attack 9-6-11
• Boiler MACT Bill - H.R. 2250 (Rep. Morgan Griffith 6-21-11)
• MWV Testimony - Boiler MACT 4-15-11
• AF&PA Comments on EPA Improving Regulations 4-04-11
• AF&PA Boiler MACT Position Paper - January 2011 
• AF&PA Chart - Cumulative Air Regulations
• NAM Link - EPA Regulations/Affordable Energy Campaign

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NAM releases Comprehensive Strategy for Global Competitiveness

The “Manufacturing Strategy for Jobs and a Competitive America,” prompts political leaders to consider the big picture – what it will take for manufacturers in the United States to succeed in the global marketplace. The Strategy explains in clear terms what is at stake for manufacturing in the United States and provides a roadmap for policies that will enable manufacturing to create jobs and compete.

Links to Key Information on Policy/Legislative Challenges:

• National Association of Manufacturers (www.nam.org)
• American Forest & Paper Association (www.afandpa.org)
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce (www.uschamber.org)
• American Enterprise Institute (www.aei.org)
• American Benefits Council (www.americanbenefitscouncil.org)
• The ERISA Industry Committee (www.eric.org)
• American Chemistry Council (www.americanchemistry.com)
• Industrial Energy Consumers of America (www.ieca-us.com)
• The Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org)