Martha Roby: “Just to go back to what I was talking about with International Paper, the cost of implementing boiler MACT regulation…”

“Just to go back to what I was talking about with International Paper, the cost of implementing boiler MACT regulation when combined with the anticipated cost of implementing other pending air regulations would place at risk 36 mills, 20,541 pulp and paper mill jobs nationally; and this is approximately 18 percent of the primary pulp and paper industry workforce. The number of lost mills would rise to 79 if all air regulations are taken into account. The loss of jobs would rise to 87,299 if jobs and the supplier in downstream industries are figured into the equation. This would mean about $4 billion in reduced wages and some $1.3 billion in lost State, local, and Federal taxes. I just wanted to add to what you were pointing out.”