The Texas Association of Manufacturers operates with an eye toward public policy’s impact on jobs, the economic prosperity of Texas, and manufacturers’ ability to remain domestically and globally competitive.

To protect and grow manufacturing jobs, TAM is committed to a series of policy principles that focus on the following issues:

• Energy – To encourage the development of market-based and cost-effective generation sources that will provide Texas with greater generation fuel diversity, including market-based, cost-effective renewable sources.
  
• Water – To promote cost-effective solutions to meet the state’s water needs by proportionally distributing any costs in developing Texas water infrastructure statewide among all consumers.
  
• Air – To maintain current, ongoing initiatives which have dramatically improved air quality in Texas and do not interfere with effective enforcement of existing effective state and federal air quality standards.
  
• Tax – To promote a competitive business tax environment in all state and local taxes.
  
• Transportation – To promote a market-driven, cost-effective transportation infrastructure that allows for efficient and competitive transport through the seaports, land ports, roads, and railroads of Texas.

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