Friends of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

THE LINE UP

• The House last year passed an unworkable climate change bill that would create some 1,200 new programs and mandates and carry a price tag of well over $1 trillion.
• EPA is moving forward with 30 major economic rules and 172 major policy rules, an unprecedented level of regulatory action.
• A flawed permitting process for energy projects is responsible for roughly $560 billion in lost private energy investment and 250,000 jobs.
• The drilling moratorium off the Gulf Coast has cost 20,000 jobs in Louisiana alone.

PROJECT NO PROJECT

One of the promises in the development and deployment of new energy technologies is the creation of “green jobs,” and it is a promise we embrace. But the sad fact is all to often these “green jobs” run afoul of “green tape.” Even more unfortunate is that many of the same groups who are thinking globally are often acting locally to stop the projects that would create jobs and reduce CO2 emissions.

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INCREASING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS THROUGH EPA

The Executive Branch agencies and offices tasked with environmental issues—the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Department of the Interior (DOI) and others—are undertaking a wide range of new rules and regulations that either tighten existing environmental standards or impose entirely new environmental obligations on the business community. Often, these agencies give little or no consideration to cost on businesses or jobs that might be lost. American businesses are increasingly feeling suffocated by the volume, scope and cost of all of these new regulations.

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HERE COMES THE EPA

Under the current administration, the EPA as either proposed or finalized 29 regulations whose implementation will cost industry over $100 million, including:

• Criteria and standards for cooling water intake structures
• National primary drinking water regulations: radon
• Effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the construction and development point source category
• Standards for the management of coal combustion residuals generated by commercial electric power producers
• Revising underground storage tank regulations.–revisions to existing requirements & additions to incorporate the provisions of Energy Policy Act
• Oil pollution prevention: spill prevention, control, and countermeasure rule requirements – amendments for milk
• Revisions to the spill prevention, control, and countermeasure (SPCC) rule
• Review of the NAAQS for carbon monoxide
• NESHAP for area sources: Industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers
• Implementing periodic monitoring in Federal and State operating permit programs
• Review of the NAAQS for particulate matter
• Transport rule (CAIR replacement rule)
• NESHAP for coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units
• Control of greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty vehicles
• NESHAP for major source industrial, commercial and institutional boilers and process heaters
• NESHAP: Portland cement notice of reconsideration
• Review of NSPS – Portland cement
• Review of primary NAAQS for sulfur dioxide
• EPA/NHTSA joint rulemaking to establish light-duty greenhouse gas emission standards and CAFÉ standards
• Reconsideration of the 2008 ozone NAAQS
• NESHAP for reciprocating internal combustion engines – existing stationary spark ignition (gas-fired)
• Review of the secondary NAAQS for oxides of nitrogen and oxides of sulfur
• Review of the NAAQS for ozone
• Review of the primary NAAQS for nitrogen dioxide
• Renewable fuels standard program
• NESHAP for reciprocating internal combustion engines – compression ignition
• Lead: renovation, repair and painting program for public and commercial buildings
• Lead: clearance and clearance testing requirements for the renovation, repair and painting program
• Lead: amendment to the opt-out and recordkeeping provisions in the renovation, repair and painting program