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On the recordMarch 30, 2011
My question to you is looking at the greenhouses gases as they are being produced out of that source, do you think that there is a reason for the United States to ask for additional environmental protections to be built into that methodology of producing oil?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey questions the need for environmental protections in oil production from tar sands.

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