Duffy Statement on EPA Retreat on Boiler Mact Rule

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Committee on Financial Services and the Joint Economic Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the news yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold off indefinitely on enforcing boiler MACT regulations that would hurt businesses in Wisconsin:

"Yesterday's news is a relief for small businesses -- especially pulp and paper facilities -- in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the lifeblood of our local economy. I support jobs in Wisconsin, but this regulation would send our good-paying, Wisconsin jobs to countries like China. Mandating unattainable EPA standards on our businesses will cost millions of dollars at a time when our businesses are struggling to stay alive. It is policies like this that are causing our jobs to flee the country.

"I don't know anyone who doesn't want our businesses to be environmentally responsible, but imposing over-burdensome regulations on our job creators doesn't make sense. That is precisely why I signed onto multiple letters to the Administration asking them to reconsider what they are doing.

"If the EPA wants to protect the air, that's fine and I'm all for that, but let's make sure we're not suffocating economic recovery in the process."

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