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Jim Inhofe: “The fact is, these costs are very real. Yet the benefits of these climate change regulations are very much unknown.”

On the recordJuly 17, 2013
The fact is, these costs are very real. Yet the benefits of these climate change regulations are very much unknown.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe argues that the costs of regulations outweigh uncertain benefits.

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