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Lamar Smith: “These measures will adversely affect our economy and have no significant impact on global temperatures by the EPA's own…”

On the recordMay 25, 2016
These measures will adversely affect our economy and have no significant impact on global temperatures by the EPA's own admission, so the regulations perpetrate a fraud on the American people.
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas

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Smith criticizes new power plant regulations as economically harmful and ineffective against climate change.

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