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Tom McClintock: Even if we went to the extreme of banning all plastics in the United States, it would at best affect just 1 percent of…

On the recordOctober 28, 2019
Even if we went to the extreme of banning all plastics in the United States, it would at best affect just 1 percent of plastic pollution in our oceans.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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He argues that banning plastics would have little effect on ocean pollution.

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