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Alex Padilla: “The EPA attempted to submit waivers as rules for…”

Featuring: Alex Padilla, Democratic | U.S. Senate from California

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Senator Alex Padilla Criticizes Senate Republicans' Actions Against California's Clean Air Waivers

Published | Video Starts at 12:18

… this op ed by June 8, just 12 days before January 20, when Donald Trump was sworn into his second term. And it's certainly no surprise that a month later, The EPA attempted to submit waivers as rules for Congressional review, claiming that the Biden EPA had withheld them. Now, let's tell Rich to accuse the Biden administration of withholding EPA waivers when the first Trump administration did the exact same thing and so did every other EPA before … (12:18–12:28)

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Asserts that the EPA attempted to submit waivers as rules for Congressional review, claiming the Biden EPA withheld them.

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