Oregon/SW Washington Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Local 36

We need your help!

The campaign to win congressional support for mechanical insulation has generated great interest on Capital Hill. Now we need to turn lawmakers’ interest into action. We need your help to get our message to Congress. We can generate jobs while saving energy and the environment. You can help by sending the letter below to your congressman. At the bottom of the page you can download individual addressed letters to your representatives as PDF files.

Dear Representative,

As you consider energy and climate change policies in the coming weeks and months, and continue your efforts to add jobs to our economy, I urge you on my behalf as a member of Local #36, Portland Or., of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers, my family and friends in coordination with the National Insulation Association, to support a proven technology that can offer huge benefits in each of these areas: Mechanical Insulation.

If you are interested in boosting green jobs or green buildings, support mechanical insulation. If you want lower energy costs, less greenhouse gas emissions, and cost savings with a rapid return on investment, turn to mechanical insulation. If you want to increase the energy efficiency of manufacturing facilities, power plants, refineries, hospitals, universities and government buildings, allow mechanical insulation to get us there.

NIA estimates that the increased use of insulation at industrial facilities alone could:
• Generate $3.6 billion in energy savings per year;
• Create 27,000 jobs annually;
• Reduce 83 billion pounds of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses.

The mechanical insulation industry has a long track record of increasing energy effiCiency. We've been green since 1903, but with the support of Congress our technologies can be an engine for job growth and help us to meet our energy security and environmental challenges.

I urge you to support the following proposals:

Appropriations
• International Union and NIA's proposal for a $3.5 million government-industry education campaign that
will improve energy efficiency in the industrial and commercial sectors by raising awareness of the
many benefits of Mechanical insulation;

• An expansion of the Energy Department's Save Energy Now industrial energy assessment program to
the commercial sector.

Tax
• Expand the existing commercial building energy efficiency tax credit so that mechanical insulation
projects qualify.

Policy
• A national green building standard recognizes the important role of mechanical insulation;
• An Energy Efficiency Resource Standard, which would create a market-based system to foster
electricity and natural gas reductions by utilities and end users.

Thank you for your consideration of this request. Please let me know if I can be of assistance to you.

Sincerely,

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