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Tom Harkin: If the environment is not free, well, then you have to start calculating the cost of that.

On the recordAugust 31, 2009
If the environment is not free, well, then you have to start calculating the cost of that.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin discusses the need to consider environmental costs in energy decisions.

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