Climate Change
NPRA News Releases
- NPRA Agrees with Senators That Domestic Refining Is A National Security Priority; Concerns Remain with Framework of Climate Legislation
- Charles T. Drevna: 'Cap-and-Trade Creates More Certainty… for Higher Unemployment'
- NPRA Cautions Senate Finance Committee on Job Loss in Written Comments on Climate Legislation
- Charles T. Drevna: 'Copenhagen… and Bust! Intellectual Honesty, Economy Take A Back Seat to Political Expediency in the Climate Debate'
NPRA Fact Sheets
- What Consumers Are Saying About Cap-and-Trade: Part II
- Lessons Learned from Waxman-Markey
- What Consumers Are Saying About the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill
- What Other Industries Are Saying About the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill
NPRA Testimony
- NPRA Statement to Senate Finance Committee on "Climate Change Legislation: Allowance and Revenue Distribution"
- NPRA's Drevna Testifies on Draft House Climate Change Legislation
- 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.
NPRA has several concerns with "American Clean Energy and Security Act" (H.R. 2454) legislation passed by the House of Representatives in June 2009, and outlined those concerns in letters sent to Representatives.
NPRA has prepared several documents demonstrating how H.R. 2454, and prior cap-and-trade legislation, will impact domestic refiners, farmers and consumers. See Related Documents below.