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On the recordJune 18, 2012
I would just say, when you and I were serving as Governors together, we found ourselves in my State in a position where we could literally have shut down the State, shut down the State in order to try to comply with Clean Air requirements and still not have been in compliance.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper reflects on past challenges with Clean Air Act compliance.

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