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Lamar Alexander: “The EPA's efforts to improve air quality by reducing power plant emissions of SO2 and NOx are a positive step, but they…”

On the recordJuly 21, 2010
The EPA's efforts to improve air quality by reducing power plant emissions of SO2 and NOx are a positive step, but they are too regional, too complicated, and too weak to be a permanent solution for public health and for the certainty and flexibility that utilities need to keep electric rates down.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Critiquing the EPA's current approach to air quality improvements.

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