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Ed Markey: When you have the big three auto manufacturers and the Edison Electric Institute endorsing a bill to reduce greenhouse…

On the recordOctober 19, 2015
When you have the big three auto manufacturers and the Edison Electric Institute endorsing a bill to reduce greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050, you are no longer in the radical extreme.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey argues that major companies support significant greenhouse gas reductions.

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