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Joe Barton: “Isn't it true that you get almost no health benefit from the reduction--the new standards for mercury reduction?”

On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
Isn't it true that you get almost no health benefit from the reduction--the new standards for mercury reduction?
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Barton questions the health benefits of mercury reduction standards based on EPA's statistical analysis.

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