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Adam Schiff: “Targeting California, which comprises 11% of the nation, and…”

Featuring: Adam Schiff, Democratic | U.S. Senate, California

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Adam Schiff's Senate Speech on California's Clean Air Waiver and Filibuster Implications

Published | Video Starts at 06:17

It's worth a lot. It's certainly worth more than contributions from the oil industry to be able to live a little longer, to be able to live a little healthier. And by Targeting California, which comprises 11% of the nation, and our goal of decarbonizing our transportation sector, we are sowing poison seeds for the future. Seeds that will grow to be more asthma and more sickness and more hospitalizations and more death. That is the bleak but blatant reality of what we are debating here today. (06:17–06:32)

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Asserts that efforts against California's decarbonization goals threaten future public health.

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