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Ed Whitfield: These greenhouse gas rules are a regulatory overreach in my view and serve as a backdoor cap and tax policy that…

On the recordJune 18, 2012
These greenhouse gas rules are a regulatory overreach in my view and serve as a backdoor cap and tax policy that Congress rejected in the last Congress.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield criticizes EPA regulations as excessive and a hidden tax.

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