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Gary Palmer: “In California right now, there is a lawsuit that has been filed by minority group against the California Air Resources…”

On the recordApril 29, 2019
In California right now, there is a lawsuit that has been filed by minority group against the California Air Resources Board, because of the harm that it is doing to low income people. Since the effective date of California's greenhouse gas reduction law, the Global Warming Solutions Act, 41 states have reduced their per capita greenhouse gas emission more than California, but it had enormous negative impact on the people in California. So, I think, we have got to look at this in the broader spectrum of how this affects everybody, and the U.S.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama
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Palmer discusses the negative impacts of California's greenhouse gas laws on low-income residents.

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