The Steel Manufacturers Association welcomes today’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Energy will launch a pilot project designed to measure the greenhouse gas intensity of steel and other industrial products.

According to a statement issued this afternoon by the DOE, “the White House Task Force on Climate, Trade, and Industrial Competitiveness seeks to work with Congress, stakeholders, and trade partners to develop GHG intensity measurement tools and approaches for select industrial products. The Department of Energy will support this work by combining data from existing sources to help build rigorous, timely, and accurate statistics on the GHG intensity of certain energy-intensive industrial products, starting with U.S. production.”

“We applaud the White House Task Force on Climate, Trade and Industrial Competitiveness and the U.S. Department of Energy for taking this necessary next step,” SMA President Philip K. Bell said. “Our members make the lowest emissions steel in the world. We look forward to working with the administration to develop tools that demonstrate our dramatic emissions advantage and then use those tools to support American workers and our domestic steel industry as well as encourage other countries to decarbonize their steel industry like we have done in the U.S.”

Learn more about the pilot project here.