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On the recordFebruary 10, 2014
I know that the major oil companies have already built into their business plans that there may at some point in the not-too-distant future be some sort of perhaps a carbon tax.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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Schakowsky discusses potential future costs of carbon emissions for oil companies.

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