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Environment/Superfund ENV

Manufacturing, workforce, and domestic content issues in climate change, energy efficiency, and infrastructure legislation, including Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44), and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169); Funding for Environmental Product Declarations and other issues related to federal Buy Clean implementation in legislation including the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169); Treatment of domestic energy intensive, trade exposed industries under potential energy and climate legislation; Treatment of steel in Buy Clean pilot programs funded by The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (P.L. 117-169); Policies to promote the use of domestic materials in offshore wind projects

Contacted: Natl Security Council (NSC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Energy, Dept of; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Treasury, Dept of; General Services Administration (GSA); SENATE; Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Federal Highway Administration (FHA)

Manufacturing MAN

Policies to encourage increased energy efficiency in manufacturing, including the Job Creation Through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act; Efforts to promote U.S. Manufacturing Sector; Issues surrounding the development of critical infrastructure manufacturing base and importance of manufacturing to national security; Buy America policies and implementation of such policies, and funding levels, for infrastructure programs in legislation including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44), Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169), and FY2025 Appropriations Bills; Treatment of aluminum and other manufactured products in Buy America policies in legislation including the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 and potential infrastructure legislation; Implementation of administration actions, including Executive Orders, to promote domestic manufacturing and job creation and retention; Implementation of melted and poured standard for steel under Buy America; Legislative efforts to promote the rebuilding and expansion of infrastructure and promoting the use of domestically produced materials; Policies to promote use of domestic materials in offshore wind projects; Implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act title of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44); Implementation of domestic content preferences in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169); Treatment of aluminum and alumina in implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (PL 117-169); Policies to promote union employment in semiconductors, batteries and superabrasives supply chains; Efforts to ensure that Nippon Steels proposed acquisition of domestic steel making assets is properly reviewed by the federal government; Implementation of 45X and 48c tax credits; Federal support for development of energy-efficiency improvement projects in aluminum smelting

Contacted: Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Executive Office of the President (EOP); General Services Administration (GSA); Federal Highway Administration (FHA); Energy, Dept of; SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Treasury, Dept of; Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

Trade law enforcement; Workers' Rights in international trade; Trade issues relating to surge in importation of steel and aluminum products into the United States; Treatment of Chinese overcapacity in steel, aluminum, paper and other industrial sectors; Section 232 investigations of the impact of steel and aluminum imports on national security, implementation of relief measures and potential legislative efforts to curtail Presidential authority and negotiations with the European Union on possible adjustment measures; Support for Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act; Support for Rapid Response Mechanism Workers Rights cases under the USMCA; Labor and manufacturing issues in the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity; Labor and manufacturing issues in the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade; Proposals to address circumvention and evasion of existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders, including the Fighting Trade Cheats Act of 2023 (S. 805/H.R. 2667); Support for Trade Adjustment Assistance Renewal; Policy Discussions regarding Generalized System of Preferences Renewal; Support for action under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to address Chinese Transportation, logistics, and maritime policies and their impact on domestic production and employment; Development of carbon border adjustment mechanisms and other trade tools to main domestic manufacturing production while driving decarbonization; Support for the Level the Playing Field Act (S. 1856/H.R. 3882); Addressing surge of steel and aluminum imports from Mexico; Support for Administrations increase of tariffs on Chinese exports of steel and aluminum products; Opposition to proposal to dramatically expand authority for Japanese shipyards to repair and maintain U.S. naval vessels considered to be homeported under U.S. law; Support for retention of Section 301 tariffs against China; Support efforts to reform U.S. de minimis law and policy; Support for AD/CVD case against four Southeast Asian countries for dumping of solar products; Treatment of critical minerals in potential Critical Minerals Agreements; Advancing efforts to secure antidumping and countervailing duty relief under U.S. trade laws for the pending aluminum extrusion cases

Contacted: Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Defense, Dept of (DOD); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 3882 (118th), S. 1856 (118th), S. 805 (118th), H.R. 2667 (118th)