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On the recordJuly 26, 2022
I think my recollection is, for every 100 minutes, Louisiana loses another piece of land to the ocean the size of a football field.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper underscores the alarming rate of land loss in Louisiana.

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