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AFS Member Testifies at Climate Change Hearing
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Kevin Evers President St. Louis Precision Casting
Bremen Castings President JB Brown waits to testify on Climate Change.
On July 18, JB Brown, president of AFS Corporate Member Bremen Castings Inc., Bremen, Ind., testifi ed before the U.S. House Small Business Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade at the hearing, “T e Presi- dent’s Climate Action Plan: What Is the Impact on Small Businesses?” In late June, President Obama released his plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants, which includes imposing costly regulations on new and existing fossil-fuel power plants. T e rules have not yet been fi nalized. Brown testifi ed the proposed rules “would place his
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company and the entire foundry industry at a substantial disadvantage to its foreign competitors and raise electricity costs.” He told the subcommittee coal-fi red plants cannot be replaced overnight by natural gas plants and cannot be replaced by alternative energy facilities quickly. T e time it takes to install pipeline and other infrastructure necessary to begin the conversion of an old plant or construction of a new one is considerable. During his testimony, Brown highlighted metalcasting as an energy-intensive industry and said the proposed rules will more adversely aff ect states such as Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri, where more than 50% of their electricity is generated from coal-fi red power plants. In Indiana, more than 80% of electricity is generated from coal-fi red power plants. Bremen Castings is a family-owned metalcasting facility with more than 250 employees produc- ing a wide variety of gray and ductile iron castings. Visit
www.afsinc.org/ClimateChange_hearing to view a video on the hearing.
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