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Shelley Moore Capito: “We have environmental laws that are strict, stringent and…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Published | Video Starts at 05:55

But I ask you, given your chairship of the Environment and Public Works Committee, is it too large an act of deregulation? Could this not have negative environmental consequences? No, no. We have environmental laws that are strict, stringent and they're adhered to. What this has done is taken a, an issue in the, in the early Obama administration and ballooned it up into what, what can we do for global carbon emissions? (05:55–06:02)

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Asserts that the U.S. has strict and adhered-to environmental laws.

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