What about the fact that in 2012, labor, health and environmental justice groups petitioned EPA to use the Clean Air Act Section 112 rulemaking authority and the General Duty Clause to require facilities that handle dangerous chemicals to use safer technologies to prevent or eliminate threats from uncontrolled chemical releases wherever feasible?
Senator Boxer questions EPA's response to a petition for safer chemical handling technologies.
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Frankly, anyone who runs on that as an issue should be defeated, overwhelmingly by everybody.
The way the Senate works, as you know, it’s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.
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