Charles Drevna, President, National Petrochemical & Refiners Association
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Charlie Drevna has more than 35 years of technical, business and public policy management experience in the refining, petrochemical and coal industries. Prior to joining NPRA in May 2002, he had served as Director, State and Federal Government Affairs for Tosco Corporation. Previously, Drevna held a variety of government affairs and public policy positions with Sun Company (now Sunoco) and its affiliates, including Vice President of Public Affairs for Sun Coal Company. Drevna received a B.S. in Chemistry from Washington & Jefferson College.
A Counterproductive Compromise A proposed reduction in crude imports through increased domestic production incentives would actually result in increased imports of refined products. As the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade legislation emerges awkwardly from the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee to face an unknown fate, the whispers of “compromise” are already being heard in the cloakrooms. But what compromise could possibly make a cap-and-trade climate bill, in the midst of a severe recession, 10 percent unemployment, and fears of a jobless recovery, more palatable to legislators on the fence and environmentally conscious consumers back home? Not much of one. The idea of… Read more
Energy Security Threatened The proposal’s emission reduction timetable is even more onerous and stringent than that of the House-passed legislation. H.R. 2454, the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation that narrowly passed the House of Representatives in June, represents policy that directly threatens our nation’s economy, our energy security, and American jobs. While the flaws in the House-passed measure are numerous enough to qualify the bill as nothing short of an abject policy failure, unfortunately the authors of the climate legislation proposed for consideration in the Senate chose not to learn from H.R. 2454’s significant shortcomings; nor did they seem to heed… Read more
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