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On the recordSeptember 18, 2013
This single tar sands pipeline would increase America's carbon pollution equivalent to building seven new coal-fired power plants.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman highlights the significant environmental damage caused by the pipeline.

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