Climate Change
NPRA News Releases
- Costly and Intrusive EPA Greenhouse Gas Rule Would Fail American Economy and Consumers
- NPRA Questions EPA ANPR Process, Supports Further Consideration of Negative Consequences Before Acting
- Unique Study Shows Many Hurdles for Compliance with Lieberman-Warner Climate Bill
- CBO Projects Climate Legislation Will Cost More Than $1 Trillion
NPRA Fact Sheets
- EPA and Greenhouse Regulation: What it Means for You
- Dispatch From Bali: Biofuels At the Bottom of the List of Low-Carbon Technologies
- Inconvenient Truths About Biofuels and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
NPRA Testimony
- NPRA's Drevna Testifies on "Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Regions"
- NPRA Statement at The Hart Energy Conference "The Key Issue of Climate and Energy Policy: The Refiners Perspective"
NPRA Agency Comments
Climate change is a complex public policy challenge that must be addressed with realistic, long-term strategies that recognize the vital role the energy sector plays in maintaining our country's freedom, economic strength, and quality of life. We support the advancement and deployment of new technologies that bring reliable, affordable and clean supplies of domestic energy to consumers. Unfortunately, many of the legislative and regulatory approaches to climate change currently being discussed would result in economic harm to all Americans while providing no measurable environmental benefit.
Any U.S. climate change policy should include efforts in energy conservation and efficiency foremost. Further, any U.S. policy should be structured to ensure that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are reduced on a global basis, and not merely shifted outside the United States through loss of American jobs and manufacturing. It is our view that policy should be based on cost-effective regulatory approaches that maintain the global competitiveness of the entire U.S. economy, including refiners and petrochemical producers. Ensuring that any policy recognizes both the international scope of GHG emissions and the need to maintain a strong economy is a tenet we believe all can agree to support.
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In May 2008, NPRA released a study it commissioned from NERA Economic Consulting that examined the potential cost impacts of the then-pending Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. NERA’s Executive Summary and NPRA’s summary of the report are also available.