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Jeff Fortenberry: Simply by shifting this production overseas, it would likely result in no net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and…

On the recordJune 10, 2009
Simply by shifting this production overseas, it would likely result in no net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and we may actually contribute to an increase inadvertently.
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Jeff Fortenberry
Republican · Nebraska

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He warns that relocating production could worsen emissions instead of reducing them.

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