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Alan Simpson: “No. It's not even necessary to be a climate change skeptic to be an EPA greenhouse gas regulations skeptic. These…”

On the recordFebruary 16, 2011
No. It's not even necessary to be a climate change skeptic to be an EPA greenhouse gas regulations skeptic. These regulations are all economic pain for little, if any, environmental gain. EPA can only regulate American companies, and we know that China already emits more carbon dioxide than we do. Its rate of emissions growth is many times faster than ours, and the Chinese Government has repeatedly made clear that they will never impose such job-destroying regulatory measures on themselves. Even Administrator Lisa Jackson, as you said, has concluded that unilateral action would have little or negligible impact on further temperatures.
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Alan Simpson
Wyoming
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Feb 16, 2011

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The speaker discusses skepticism towards EPA greenhouse gas regulations and their economic implications.

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