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Bruce Westerman: These policies may be making environmental law firms rich, but they are killing our national forests.

On the recordJune 14, 2017
These policies may be making environmental law firms rich, but they are killing our national forests.
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Bruce Westerman
Republican · Arkansas

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Critique of current environmental policies harming national forests.

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