WASHINGTON – North Dakota Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak highlights how she believes domestic production of chemicals is critical to growing our economy, improving supply chains, protecting public safety, and competing globally.
The Biden EPA’s changes to chemical risk evaluations don't make us any safer. Instead, the regulations:
❌ Incentivize manufacturers to move their operations overseas
❌ Jeopardize good-paying jobs
❌ Drive up costs for ND’s farmers & ranchersMy questioning @HouseCommerce ↓ pic.twitter.com/lL6bQcso0j
— Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak (@RepFedorchak) January 22, 2025
She made the comments in her first House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment hearing.
“It creates more regulatory uncertainty and makes Americans less safe—not more safe—by pushing manufacturing overseas, jeopardizing American jobs, threatening supply chains by exposing them to intrusion by foreign adversaries, driving up costs for North Dakota farmers and ranchers and thereby for everything that we purchase,” Fedorchak said.
Fedorchak says in 2023 the U.S. exported $665 million worth of chemical products. She adds feedstock chemicals are essential to the production of fertilizers that fuel our country’s $12 billion and growing agriculture sector.
