Washington-The Fertilizer Institute has met with Reid Harvey, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Chief of the Climate Economics Branch, and his team to discuss EPA’s economic Preliminary Analysis of the Waxman Markey Discussion Draft. During the meeting, TFI questioned the assumptions that the agency utilized in its analysis of the legislation and stressed the unique role fertilizer plays in food production. TFI cited the loss of 26 nitrogen fertilizer production plants since 2000 as evidence that nitrogen is not only energy intensive, but vulnerable to policies that drive up natural gas prices.
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