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On the recordApril 14, 2011
These standards could and should have been adopted years ago, and if industry hadn't said the cleanup couldn't be done, we would have already done it.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman criticizes the industry for delaying mercury cleanup standards.

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