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Brian Mast: We cannot go out there and make water promises when it means having to poison another community to do so.

On the recordSeptember 23, 2020
We cannot go out there and make water promises when it means having to poison another community to do so.
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Brian Mast
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Mast asserts the importance of protecting communities from toxic water discharges.

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