David McKinley: “Should we? Can we afford that as a society when 24 million people are either unemployed or underemployed?”

I think what you are doing by your memo is you are only going to make it worse.

Unfortunately, instead of promoting innovation and supporting the chemical industry, as the Act intended, it seems like EPA is stifling innovation and creating barriers to commerce for new and existing materials.

But now it is five years later, and this committee, I think, apparently now, we are looking to see how it has been implemented.

Now, Assistant Administrator, Section 902--just in your opinion, I know that you haven't crafted the bill, but it is out there before us--Section 902 of the Clean Future Act restricts the building or expansion of American plastic…