In his testimony before the US Senate on behalf of the Virginia Manufacturers Association, President & CEO Brett A. Vassey referenced Tom Mullikin, noting:

“It is my opinion that Mr. Tom Mullikin, a senior environmental attorney with Moore & Van Allen in Charlotte, NC, is one of the most persuasive and well cited researchers in this policy area and should be invited to speak to this Committee.  His documentary, Climate Change:  Global Problems, Global Solutions, has had the most profound impact on industrial leaders across the US about how to look differently at the political and economic solutions to climate change.  For example, American manufacturers are three times more productive than Asian competitors and 33% of China’s CO2 emissions are from the production of goods for export.  In essence, one of Mullikin’s findings is that due to the productivity of the American manufacturer (and worker) and the efficiency of US manufacturing, our nation’s carbon emissions from industry are only 11.5% of the country’s overall carbon emissions, whereas, the EU’s industrial equivalent is 16.2%, Japan’s is 21.5% and China’s is 28% (Source – World Resources Institute).  In other words, the US is the largest manufacturing economy in the world and if it were to grow that industrial base, rather than limit it, we may grow GHG emissions domestically by a small percentage, but we could lower the overall global GHG emissions.”

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