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On the recordSeptember 7, 2011
EPA has never considered the cost of additional health care required because someone loses a job, and I don't understand how that is possible, why that is not a legitimate cost.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield criticizes EPA for not factoring job loss health costs into their analysis.

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