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Ed Markey: Well, you are wrong. Freezing the standards would mean an additional 2.2 billion metric tons of global warming pollution…

On the recordJuly 31, 2018
Well, you are wrong. Freezing the standards would mean an additional 2.2 billion metric tons of global warming pollution by 2040, equal to 43 coal fired power plants.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey argues that freezing standards will significantly increase climate pollution.

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