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On the recordJuly 22, 2014
On July 6th of this year, the New York Times wrote a piece about the outsized role that the National Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, had in developing the EPA's new regulations to curb power plant emissions.
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming

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Barrasso discusses NRDC's influence on EPA regulations.

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