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On the recordJune 5, 2012
His agenda wasn't about any sort of clean water, clean air. It was an agenda about getting rid of American production of energy, specifically, fossil fuels--oil, gas, coal.
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Pete Olson
Republican · Texas

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Olson criticizes a former EPA official's agenda against fossil fuel production.

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