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On the recordSeptember 6, 2022
But for many years, particularly from 2001 to 2019, the TVA paid a group called the Utility Air Regulatory Group, which was an anti-climate industry lobbying group that opposed clean air regulations, opposed climate legislation, climate regulations.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse criticizes TVA's past funding of anti-climate lobbying groups.

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