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 勒特

再一次对炼油厂立法进行投票,以高油价为借口削弱环境保护,并向石油行业提供更多立法礼物,这是一种极端的误导。

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We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

我们增加了环保支出,制定了法律,使我们能够在全国范围内清理和重新开发废弃的棕地,并实施了新的净水标准,保护我们免受砷污染。

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

从根本上说,具有历史意义的、全面的、有大量参议员支持的立法更持久。