The idea that EPA requirements to clean up air pollution will hurt the economy and kill jobs is now Republican economic dogma, but these are the same doom and gloom scenarios we have heard from industry since the Clean Air Act was first adopted in 1970, and none of them have come true.
Waxman argues against claims that environmental regulations harm the economy, citing historical inaccuracies.
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