For U.S. Manufacturers: Relative Cost of Environmental Regulations

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According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau (2005 PACE; 2005 ASM), for more than 82% of U.S. industrial sectors surveyed the total cost of environmental laws is less than 1% of their total value of product shipments.

Please note this chart only considers manufacturing sectors for which 2005 data are available from both the ASM and the PACE datasets.

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• EPA, Clean Air Act, and U.S. Manufacturing
• Graphic: Relative Annual Costs and Expenditures for U.S. Manufacturing