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On the recordJuly 13, 2009
Our President was a guy named George Herbert Walker Bush, and as I recall, he proposed harnessing market forces to try to address the problems that we had with acid rain destroying forests and water and lakes and so forth in New England.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper recalls Bush's market-based approach to environmental issues.

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