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Ed Markey: “A lot of times you hear from people saying, it really hurts the economy of the United States when there is a clean air…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2014
A lot of times you hear from people saying, it really hurts the economy of the United States when there is a clean air law that goes on the books, that it is too dangerous to run the risk of trying to make the air cleaner to reduce the number of people who get sick, to reduce the number of people who die from dirty air.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey argues against claims that clean air laws harm the economy.

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