WASHINGTON, June 12 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release:

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Whitehouse Blasts Trump's "Free Pass" to Planet's Most Toxic Polluters

By rolling back the power plant greenhouse gas and air toxics standards, EPA is giving polluters free rein to poison our air with neurotoxins and cancer-causing emissions

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