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On the recordJuly 11, 2023
You can't just walk away sometimes and shift the costs, whether it is a tribe or most of the time if it is a trust land issue, it is a tribe that you shift the cost to.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva emphasizes the unfairness of shifting pollution costs to tribes.

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