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Kathy Castor: “Protecting the environment is not inherently bad for the economy and solutions exist all around us.”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
Protecting the environment is not inherently bad for the economy and solutions exist all around us.
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Kathy Castor
Democratic · Florida

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Kathy Castor argues that environmental protection can coexist with economic growth.

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