Steel Comment of the Week
“Domestically produced steel is strategically
important for America’s economic well-being as well as our domestic security.
As a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus, I have long stood against
the dumping of below-cost, foreign-made steel on American shores.
American-made steel means jobs here at home and ensures that
America does not have to depend on imported steel to build our basic
infrastructure or our military might.”
Congressman Nick J. Rahall (WV-3)
Steel
Facts:
- Steel is the most recycled
material in the world—more than aluminum, paper, glass and plastic
combined.
- For each steel industry job,
it generates seven jobs in other sectors.
- American steel producers
generate more than 1.2 million jobs and add more than $350 billion
annually to the American economy
- According to the U.S.
Department of Transportation, every $1 billion invested in federal
highways supports nearly 35,000 American jobs
- The steel industry has reduced
energy intensity per ton of steel produced by 31% since 1990
- 50% of the steels used
in automobiles today, did not exist 10 short years ago
Congressman Nick J. Rahall http://www.rahall.house.gov/
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More Information:
Congressman
Proposes to Suspend EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulatory Power
ENS News Wire
March 8, 2010
Rockefeller,
Rahall, Mollohan Move to Block EPA Regulation of Greenhouse
Gases
WVNS-TV
March 5,2010
CONTACT:
Jessie Lowry
Manager, Communications
American Iron and Steel Institute
tel: 202.452.7116
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