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On the recordJune 28, 2012
Sure, there were benefits from Utility MACT or mercury and air toxic standards, but the primary benefit was not mercury reductions.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield asserts that the main benefits of regulations were misrepresented.

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