Action Alert: Vote Yes to Resolution
Prohibiting EPA From Regulating GHG Emissions

Released February 23, 2010

In the next few weeks, the U.S. Senate will vote on a resolution of disapproval that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act.

As prospects fade that Congress will pass a comprehensive climate bill this year, EPA is moving forward to write wide-ranging regulations to restrict emissions from vehicles, power plants and other major sources, including metalcasting facilities. AFS is concerned that these regulations could:

• impose significant new costs on metalcasing facilities;
  
• force customers to move overseas;
• curtail domestic energy production;
• lead to more job losses in the metalcasting industry.

Specifically, EPA has offered no guidance to large industrial facilities as to what types of best available control technology standards will be required to control GHGs. These costly burdens and uncertainty could harm competiveness in a global economy.

The resolution only needs a simple 51-vote majority to pass. It already has support of 40 Senators, including 37 Republicans and 3 Democrats. Click here to see if your Senator has cosponsored.

Similar bills limiting EPA’s authority to regulate GHG emissions have been introduced in the House (H.R. 4396 and H.R. 4572). AFS will distribute another action alert with a sample letter when the issue comes up for a vote in the House later this spring.

ACTION NEEDED NOW! Contact your Senators and tell them to vote YES on the resolution that will prohibit the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Simply follow the directions below. For more information, contact Alicia Oman, Metalcasters Alliance for Government Affairs Washington Office, at 202/842-4864 or aoman@afsinc.org.

Take the Following Steps:

• Fill out the sample letter by clicking here.
  (Be sure to personalize it);
• Fax the letter to your Senator.
  Click here to find your Senator’s fax number.
• Be sure to copy Alicia Oman on your correspondence with Senate offices. Her fax is 202/898-0188,
  email is aoman@afsinc.org.