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On the recordMarch 8, 2011
I have to tell you that that's cold comfort to me, because the initial rule, according to industry estimates at least, was something in the neighborhood of $3 billion in capital costs.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Collins criticizes the EPA's cost reductions as insufficient for the struggling industry.

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