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Joe Barton: “If this regulation is implemented, Texas will bear a disproportionate share of the cost, 25 percent of the entire…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2014
If this regulation is implemented, Texas will bear a disproportionate share of the cost, 25 percent of the entire country's reductions has to be in Texas.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton discusses the financial impact of EPA regulations on Texas.

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