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On the recordJuly 15, 2012
It was not the members of Congress who made that decision, 250 tons was the law that they wrote.
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Howard Griffith
Republican · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Griffith emphasizes that Congress did not intend for the Clean Air Act to apply to carbon dioxide.

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