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George Miller: I do not know what the property right is that allows you to take pollution from your land and dump it into the streams…

On the recordApril 23, 1996
I do not know what the property right is that allows you to take pollution from your land and dump it into the streams and the bays and the waterways of this Nation. I do not know what that property right is that allows you to take non-point pollution, pesticides and toxics, and dump them into the bays and the rivers and eventually end up in our coastal zone. There is no property right that gives you the right to pollute the public waterways and to diminish the resources available to other Americans.
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George Miller
Democratic · California

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Addressing pollution and property rights during a debate on environmental protections.

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