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Stephen Breyer: In my opinion, recent EPA documents have been seriously deficient in not explicitly acknowledging that the diseases of…

On the recordOctober 3, 2011
In my opinion, recent EPA documents have been seriously deficient in not explicitly acknowledging that the diseases of concern arise from multiple risk factors and that specific air pollutants, and air pollution in general, is not the major causative factor.
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Stephen Breyer

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Breyer criticizes EPA for not recognizing multiple health risk factors beyond air pollution.

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