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Ed Whitfield: “And we feel very strongly and have written letters to EPA asking for an explanation, that their emissions standard was…”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2014
And we feel very strongly and have written letters to EPA asking for an explanation, that their emissions standard was set illegally because the plants that they rely on is an explicit violation of the 2005 Energy Policy Act.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield claims EPA's emissions standards violate the 2005 Energy Policy Act.

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