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Boiler MACT
AF&PA supports a balanced approach to Boiler MACT and other air regulations that will protect public health while preserving high-paying manufacturing jobs essential to the American economy.
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Climate Change
AF&PA members recognize climate change as an issue of significant global concern. AF&PA advocates environmentally responsible science-based policies that balance environmental, social, and economic elements.
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Energy Costs
AF&PA supports policies that reduce the cost of energy by encouraging fuel diversity, increasing access to supplies both on and offshore, investing in breakthrough technologies, and promoting conservation.
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Recycling
AF&PA's goal is to ensure a continuing, expanding domestic recovered fiber supply to help meet global demand. Paper recycling reuses a renewable resource that sequesters carbon and helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Renewable Energy
We also support maintaining policies to encourage power generation from highly-efficient energy sources, such as co-generation facilities (e.g., policies requiring utilities to purchase co-generated electricity from those facilities).
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Sustainability
In the forest products industry, sustainability means that we strive to ensure our resources will be as plentiful and available to future generations as they are today; to preserve and grow the economic contributions of the industry and its businesses; and to foster the well-being of the communities where we live and work.
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Tax
AF&PA-commissioned research conducted in 2005 shows that U.S. forest products companies face the highest tax burden among the eight major international competitor countries.
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