NAM Guides Treasury, IRS on Climate Incentives
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The Treasury Department and the IRS can help the U.S. meet its climate goals—if both agencies “can leverage private sector ingenuity, expertise and capital” both transparently and inclusively, the NAM told Treasury late last week.
What’s going on: This year’s reconciliation legislation contains advanced manufacturing, clean energy and climate incentives to invest $369 billion in actions that will address climate change, including $270 billion via direct tax incentives.
- These measures can be successful if “Treasury and the IRS quickly address the critical details of how each of these incentives will work in tandem with clean energy and advanced manufacturing projects that have already begun and those that have yet to be conceived,” NAM Vice President of Energy and Resources Policy Rachel Jones told the agencies.
- Treasury must also work to ensure the incentives are used “in a way that quickly brings new private capital to bear” while keeping projects on schedule.
Manufacturers’ input needed: Engagement with manufacturers should help the agencies develop their rulemaking, Jones said.
- “To meet our shared goals, including achieving meaningful emissions reductions, Treasury and the IRS should maintain an open line of communication with the NAM’s members of all sizes and sectors,” she said.
- “Without thoughtful engagement with manufacturers, the clean energy and climate incentives could have the opposite of intended results, and in some cases projects could stall, communities will face further disappointment, energy security will be jeopardized and climate goals will go unmet.”
What’s not needed: “It would be shortsighted to implement guidance and rules that exclude or indirectly penalize manufacturers that are already making significant capital investments in clean energy projects,” Jones said.
Teamwork—and plain language: The NAM also urged Treasury and the IRS to make clear their definitions and qualifications when it comes to clean energy and climate tax credits.
- Jones recommended cooperation across the “entire federal family” to combat climate change—from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the Department of Defense to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and many more.
NAM about town … The NAM participated in a Treasury roundtable yesterday where it shared the specific concerns and constructive input from manufacturers more directly.
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Manufacturers Unveil Competitiveness Agenda Ahead of Midterm Elections
“Competing to Win” offers a path for bringing the country together around policies, shared values and a unified purpose
Washington, D.C. – Ahead of the midterm elections, the National Association of Manufacturers released its policy roadmap, “Competing to Win,” a comprehensive blueprint featuring immediate solutions for bolstering manufacturers’ competitiveness. It is also a roadmap for policymakers on the laws and regulations needed to strengthen the manufacturing industry in the months and years ahead.
With the country facing rising prices, snarled supply chains and geopolitical turmoil, manufacturers are outlining an actionable competitiveness agenda that Americans across the political spectrum can support. “Competing to Win” includes the policies manufacturers in America will need in place to continue driving the country forward.
“‘Competing to Win’ offers a path for bringing our country together around policies, shared values and a unified purpose,” said NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons. “The NAM is putting forward a plan filled with ideas that policymakers could pursue immediately, including solutions to urgent problems, such as energy security, immigration reform, supply chain disruptions, the ongoing workforce shortage and more. Manufacturers have shown incredible resilience through difficult times, employing more workers now than before the pandemic, but continued resilience is not guaranteed without the policies that are critical to the state of manufacturing in America.”
The NAM and its members will leverage “Competing to Win” to shape policy debates ahead of the midterm elections, in the remainder of the 117th Congress and at the start of the 118th Congress—including in direct engagement with lawmakers, for grassroots activity, across traditional and digital media and through events in key states and districts as we did following the initial rollout of the roadmap in 2016.
The document focuses on 12 areas of action, and all policies are rooted in the values that have made America exceptional and keep manufacturing strong: free enterprise, competitiveness, individual liberty and equal opportunity.
Learn more about how manufacturers are leading and about the industry’s competitiveness agenda at nam.org/competing-to-win.
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The National Association of Manufacturers is the largest manufacturing association in the United States, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states. Manufacturing employs more than 12.8 million men and women, contributes $2.77 trillion to the U.S. economy annually and accounts for 58% of private-sector research and development. The NAM is the powerful voice of the manufacturing community and the leading advocate for a policy agenda that helps manufacturers compete in the global economy and create jobs across the United States. For more information about the NAM or to follow us on Twitter and Facebook, please visit www.nam.org
