07MAY2019 - NEWS - Lawmakers Pressure White House On IMO 2020 Implementation

Fourteen U.S. Senate Republicans have warned that delaying enforcement of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) regulation to lower sulfur in marine fuels (known as IMO 2020) would be worse than the economic damage that could result from short-term fuel price increases.

In what some see as an effort to influence White House policy-makers before the Trump Administration starts weighing options that would undermine the regulation, the lawmakers sent a letter, led by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), to President Trump supporting the new marine fuel standards, scheduled to go into effect January 1, 2020.

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