Manufacturers to EPA: We’re leading air quality gains, we don’t need more rules
The EPA says the rule will improve air quality, while manufacturers argue current rules are sufficient
Manufacturers
are pushing back on a new air quality regulation advanced by the
Environmental Protection Agency, arguing that companies in the sector
are leading efforts to improve air quality and the agency putting
forward new rules will hamper those efforts and slow economic growth.
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) President and CEO Jay Timmons delivered an address on the state of manufacturing on Tuesday, and said that "we’re going to tell the EPA that manufacturers are already leading to clean our air."
"The government shouldn’t enact rules that,
however well-intentioned, would make it more difficult to achieve our
environmental goals, slow our economic growth and push us closer toward
recession," Timmons said. "In fact, the NAM is launching a nationwide
campaign to tell regulators to protect manufacturers and not change...Read more and see video here.