By David N. Taylor The U.S. Supreme Court has not one, but two opportunities this term to rein in a partisan litigation campaign dead-set on taking down the oil and natural gas industry. The Justices should intervene in order to protect consumers and manufacturers in Pennsylvania and across the country from the costly effects of ...
PMA Environmental Resources & Energy Committee Testimony
June 24, 2024 | Energy
David N. TaylorJune 24, 2024 Good morning, I am David N. Taylor, President & CEO of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association. Our sector depends on abundant, reliable, affordable energy. PMA supports a pro-production agenda for domestic energy in our competitive marketplace, which is working. Before competition, PA’s electricity rates were 20% above the national average. As ...
PMA Comments in Opposition to House Bill 2238
June 07, 2024
May 31, 2024Comments in Opposition of House Bill 2238 Submitted to:Pennsylvania House of Representatives Environmental Resources & Energy Committee Submitted by:David N. Taylor, President & CEO Carl A. Marrara, Executive Director The Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association (PMA) opposes House Bill 2238, sponsored by Representative Greg Scott, pertaining to bans on Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in ...
Business Tax Policy Competitiveness
April 11, 2024 | Business Tax Relief
Carl A. Marrara, Executive DirectorTestimony before the:House Republican Policy Committee Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce Read PMA’s Full Tax Climate Report Chairman Kail and esteemed members of the PA House Republican Policy Committee – thank you for allowing me to join you today. I am Carl A. Marrara, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association ...
An open letter to the Allegheny County Council
April 09, 2024 | Energy
April 8, 2024 An open letter to the Allegheny County Council: Two weeks ago, after months of closed-door conversations, Bucks County sued companies that produce reliable and affordable energy for damages related to global climate change. While it’s the first government in Pennsylvania to file such a lawsuit, activists behind the litigation hope that it ...
Philadelphia LNG Export Task
April 08, 2024 | Workforce/Education
Carl Marrara’s testimony to the Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force Read the full study HERE! Good morning esteemed members of the Philadelphia LNG Export Task force. I am Carl A. Marrara, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association – the statewide, nonprofit trade organization representing the people who make things here in the commonwealth – ...
PMA’s response to the Governor’s energy tax plan appears below. All quotes should be attributed to: David N. Taylor, President & CEO, Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association. “Governor Shapiro’s energy tax will cause widespread destruction in every industry in Pennsylvania. A new, additional tax on energy production will jeopardize our vital industries and undermine the hardworking women ...
2024 SAM Good Drug Policy Summit – David N. Taylor Remarks
February 01, 2024 | Workforce/Education
Remarks by David N. TaylorPresident & CEOPennsylvania Manufacturers’ Associationto the 2024 SAM Good Drug Policy SummitFebruary 1, 2024Gaylord National ResortNational Harbor, Maryland Thank you. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to you today, although I regret that I bring to you a challenge for which I have no solution. Hopefully, by identifying and ...
National School Choice Week Rally
January 23, 2024 | Workforce/Education
Remarks by David N. Taylor at National School Choice Week Rally January 23, 2024The Capitol, Harrisburg Thank you very much. I’m David N. Taylor and I have the great honor of serving as school board president for Reach Cyber Charter School, one of Pennsylvania’s statewide virtual schools. Each one of Pennsylvania’s young people is unique, ...
Who’s the greediest of them all?
January 16, 2024 | Economy
Politicians on trillion-dollar spending sprees have no credibility to scapegoat businesses by David N. Taylor In March 2021, Congress passed and President Biden signed into law the $1,900,000,000,000 “American Rescue Plan”, which lit the fuse for the highest inflation in forty years. The powers-that-be doubled down on overspending that August with the comically mistitled “Inflation ...