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EPA Threatening Local Pennsylvania Economies
May 14, 2010
The EPA has been busy writing new air quality regulations that seem to be designed to do things that the failed Cap and Trade legislation contained. In other words, an end run on Congress. An end run on our elected officials by EPA bureaucrats. These new carbon dioxide and ozone regulations will have profound negative effects on economic development.
For counties in Pennsylvania this could mean:
Pennsylvania businesses and individuals would incur control costs of up to $3.2 billion.
Restrictive and expensive permit requirements that discourage companies from building or expanding major manufacturing facilities in certain counties. These requirements include offsetting new emissions and installing the maximum emission reduction technology without consideration of costs.
- Loss of federal funding for highway and transit projects unless the state demonstrates that the projects will not increase emissions.
- Costly compliance that will make Pennsylvania businesses less competitive and thus lead to direct employment losses—resulting in larger overall losses through multiplier effects.
I encourage you to contact your Federal Representatives in regards to this very important issue. And join us, so together we can stop the EPA from moving forward on this harmful regulation.
Sincerely,
Joe Hilliard
State Chairman