I hope all of you are rested from the holidays and ready to hit the ground running because your association and the industry its serves face a number of challenges in 2010. 
 
Congress and the Obama administration have adopted an aggressive stance with environmental regulation and are currently challenging our shop towel business. Specifically, I’m talking about a business that represents almost 10% of the textile rental industry. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule change on shop towels is unnecessary because our industry is an environmentally friendly business. Recycling textiles makes far more sense environmentally than tossing ...