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Ed Whitfield: “The administration has chosen to make climate an agency priority without any statutory authority from Congress.”

On the recordMarch 1, 2016
The administration has chosen to make climate an agency priority without any statutory authority from Congress.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield argues that the DOE's climate focus lacks congressional mandate.

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