The issue focused on the Environmental Protection Agency's decision last week to study the impact of building a new oil refinery in Illinois. The next step for the EPA will be to issue the report and issue regulations for the project, a process that will take several years. Both the White House and Democratic leaders have criticized the move as unnecessary and say the project is an environmental victory for the state.


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Key Republican lawmakers in Illinois were particularly critical of the report because of its request to study the impacts