Jack Gerard
Jane Van Ryan
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will take up the Waxman-Markey bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the oil and natural gas industry endorses the bill's goal of protecting the environment, this bill should be rejected. Simply stated, the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation will cost Americans billions of dollars, kill jobs and will not deliver the environmental benefits promised.
In anticipation of the upcoming House vote, I sent a letter to Congress urging the members to set the bill aside and take the time necessary to get this legislation right.
API and its member companies are committed to working with Congress to produce climate change legislation, but not at the expense of the American consumer and the economy.
For more, read the full letter to Congress.
Congressional action should be centered on protecting and promoting jobs for American citizens and not on destroying them. The Waxman-Markey bill will cause an economic disaster that will likely be impossible to reverse. Not only will it eliminate hundreds of thousand of US jobs, it will destroy America's coal mining sector. This bill was not designed with everyone's best interest. In fact, it is not tailored to benefit anyone except a small group. Contact your Senators today at http://tinyurl.com/klfut8..