Reaction to U.S. House Passage of H. R. 2250
VIENNA, Va., Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reacting to the passage of H. R. 2250 by the U. S. House of Representatives, American Boiler Manufacturers Association President/CEO Randy Rawson released the following statement:
"In passing H. R. 2250 the U. S. House of Representatives has once again engaged in pugnacious political theater of the type to which we have become all too accustomed in recent months.
"Approving this bill, the House has cast its lot with discredited, flawed, self-serving studies and exaggerated impact analyses to advance an anti-regulatory political agenda in an election year rather than meaningfully contributing to any credible or constructive effort to provide clarity or afford certainty. Opting for continued, arbitrarily-chosen delay and imprecise legislative definitions and directions, the House has signaled its preference for on-going, long-term market-place uncertainty and turmoil rather than trying to resolve exigent issues.
"Confronted with an uncertain future in the U. S. Senate and a threatened veto by the President, the House nonetheless has slapped boiler and boiler-related equipment manufacturers and their employees across the face with unwarranted and unfounded allegations that American boiler manufacturers are unable to meet tough air quality emissions rules, and that any effort by them to do so would be overly costly. This Association categorically rejects those assertions.
"For over a quarter of a century, members of the American Boiler Manufacturers Association have successfully met each and every air-quality and emissions-limit challenge thrown at us by state, local and federal regulators and have done so with innovative ideas and newly-developed products in a cost-effective and timely manner. The small business members of this Association are ready and able to meet today's challenges as effectively as they have done in every other instance in which they have been called on to do so. The delay envisioned by the House will yield no market stability, no new jobs, no economic growth and no cleaner air or any cheaper ultimate compliance options than are now feasible and readily available."
The American Boiler Manufacturers Association (ABMA) is the national nonprofit trade association of commercial, institutional, industrial, heat recovery, and electricity-generating boiler and combustion equipment manufacturers and their vendors. ABMA is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia.
CONTACT:
W. RANDALL RAWSON, PRESIDENT/CEO
EMAIL: [email protected]
CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER: 703/729-7510 –OR-
Cell: 703/967-8058
SOURCE American Boiler Manufacturers Association
Share this article