The Chamber strongly supports continued environmental improvements, including sensible approaches to addressing climate change.
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We believe that economic growth and environmental progress are not mutually exclusive goals.
To make further progress, we should be guided by what has already worked: gains in efficiency, new technologies, and the increased use of natural gas and renewable fuels.
The climate is changing and humans are contributing to these changes. We believe that there is much common ground on which all sides of this discussion could come together to address climate change with policies that are practical, flexible, predictable, and durable. We believe in a policy approach that acknowledges the costs of action and inaction and the competitiveness of the U.S. economy.
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The Environmental Affairs and Sustainability team promotes an enabling environment to ensure that the business community has the flexibility and policy tools it needs to succeed.
The mission of the U.S. Chamber's Global Energy Institute is to unify policymakers, regulators, business leaders, and the American public behind a common sense energy strategy to help keep America secure, prosperous, and clean.
With over 190,000 regulations put on the books just since 1976, the frustrations with the administrative state are well justified.
Today, President Trump announced that his Administration granted the cross border permit needed for the Keystone XL pipeline.
EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are ordered to review and potentially withdraw the 2015 regulation.
In recent years, Washington has unleashed a relentless torrent of burdensome and costly regulations.
Congress is rolling back some of the regulatory red tape created by the Obama administration.Using the Congressional Review Act (CRA), Congress can disapprove of regulations that have been finalized in the last 60 days Congress has been in session. When the resolutions of disapproval are signed by the president, they’re taken off the books.
Those affected by WOTUS could have pushed regulators to employ better, more thorough analyses in the rulemaking process.
Those who know him best support him to run the federal government's top environmental regulator.
Small business owners don’t need haunted houses or horror movies. Washington gives them plenty of reasons to scream.
If a business would have accidentally polluted a river, the agency would've thrown the book at it.
Here are a few key energy issues that we’ll be keeping a close eye on during Monday’s debate.
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