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Adam Schiff: “If you’re successful in eliminating half of our efforts to clean our water and our air, your legacy will be more lung…”

On the recordMay 20, 2025
If you’re successful in eliminating half of our efforts to clean our water and our air, your legacy will be more lung cancer, it’ll be more bladder cancer, it’ll be more head and neck cancer, it’ll be more breast cancer, it’ll be more leukemia and pancreatic cancer, more liver cancer, more skin cancer, more kidney cancer, more testicular cancer, more colorectal cancer, more rare cancers of innumerable varieties.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

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Schiff warns of health risks from EPA rollbacks under Trump.

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