Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) is urging the Trump administration to stay engaged in United Nations talks to craft a global plastics treaty.
“You now have the opportunity to reassert American leadership and credibility by leading negotiations to achieve agreement on a treaty that aligns with our domestic legal frameworks and with the Trump Administration’s manufacturing agenda,” Capito wrote in a recent letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“Without your leadership,” she added, “foreign bureaucrats could negotiate a treaty that goes beyond U.S. law and increases costs for American businesses and consumers.”
The State Department generally does not comment on congressional communications, a spokesperson said Friday in response to a request for comment on the letter.
