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On the recordJuly 15, 2012
Actually that is true. As a matter of fact, when they had a conference between the Senate and the House, when the Clean Air Act was last amended in 1990, one of the members, I was told, introduced an amendment to allow greenhouse gases to be regulated and they would not accept it.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield confirms that Congress did not intend for greenhouse gases to be regulated under the Clean Air Act.

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