Joe Geldhof, the Alaskan representative for Republicans for Environmental Protection, remains skeptical.

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Jim DiPeso, policy director at Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP), draws an even more important lesson for the big picture.

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It is doing to the agency for Democrats what right-wing criticism is doing to the Environmental Protection Agency for Republicans: stripping both of scientific legitimacy.

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