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Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

Sherwood Boehlert

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Sherwood Boehlert
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: September 28
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