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Grace Napolitano: By shifting the burden of pollution from those who create it to families and communities downstream, this administration…

On the recordSeptember 17, 2019
By shifting the burden of pollution from those who create it to families and communities downstream, this administration would take us back to the era before the Clean Water Act.
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Grace Napolitano
Democratic · California

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Napolitano argues that pollution burdens are unfairly shifted under current policies.

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