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Fred Upton: “As awful as cap-and-trade energy taxes would have been, the Agency's greenhouse gas regs are looking even worse.”

On the recordJune 18, 2012
As awful as cap-and-trade energy taxes would have been, the Agency's greenhouse gas regs are looking even worse.
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Fred Upton
Republican · Michigan

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Upton compares cap-and-trade negatively to EPA's greenhouse gas regulations.

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