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Bruce Westerman: It is interesting that it is not that we went through the environmental permitting process and found out there were…

On the recordMay 10, 2023
It is interesting that it is not that we went through the environmental permitting process and found out there were problems; you can't even go through the process because it has been usurped by an activist administration.
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Bruce Westerman
Republican · Arkansas

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Westerman criticizes the inability to proceed with environmental permitting due to administrative actions.

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