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Fred Upton: “These rules take the Clean Air Act in an unprecedented new direction, in which it was never designed to go.”

On the recordOctober 21, 2015
These rules take the Clean Air Act in an unprecedented new direction, in which it was never designed to go.
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Fred Upton
Republican · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Upton argues that new EPA rules misinterpret the Clean Air Act's original intent.

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