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On the recordJuly 15, 2009
It worked. It worked then, and I think it is regarded as maybe one of the most, maybe the most, successful environmental program that we have had in this country.
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Thomas Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper asserts the success of the cap-and-trade program for sulfur dioxide.

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