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Jim Inhofe: “All right. In the benefits and costs of the Clean Air Act from 1990 to 2020, that is a 30-year period, and it is your…”

On the recordJune 14, 2011
All right. In the benefits and costs of the Clean Air Act from 1990 to 2020, that is a 30-year period, and it is your report, it makes some claims, the benefits of about $2 trillion a year and possibly as high as $5.5 trillion a year.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe questions the economic claims of the Clean Air Act's benefits as reported by the EPA.

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