The American steel industry has a long commitment to aggressively seeking ways to reduce our environmental footprint while producing the advanced and highly recyclable steel that our economy needs. In fact, the steel sector is recognized as having the steepest decline of total air emissions among nine manufacturing sectors studied in EPA's 2008 Sector Performance Report.
The industry’s demonstrated leadership in meeting and exceeding environmental requirements has resulted in the lowest CO2 emissions per ton of steel production in the world. However, the simultaneous development of multiple new environmental regulatory proposals across several program areas at the federal and state levels will create severe competitive disadvantages for the industry and endanger manufacturing jobs.
Industry Position: Congress should conduct a comprehensive oversight program of environmental regulatory development activities and initiatives to examine the impact on industrial competitiveness as well as encourage greater transparency and access to the regulatory development process at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state agencies.
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