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Bernie Sanders: “These oil companies used tobacco industry lobbyists and tactics to cast doubt on global warming science. What this is…”

On the recordJune 10, 2010
These oil companies used tobacco industry lobbyists and tactics to cast doubt on global warming science. What this is about is, if our Nation is to prosper, if we are to create the millions of jobs we desperately need, we have to have science-based public policy and not politically based. I would hope that we will reject, very strongly, the Murkowski resolution.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont
Source
govinfo.gov
Jun 10, 2010

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Senator Sanders addresses the influence of oil companies on climate policy.

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