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John Shimkus: “I am enormously skeptical of the efforts by the EPA to begin regulating coal combustion products as hazardous waste.”

On the recordApril 13, 2011
I am enormously skeptical of the efforts by the EPA to begin regulating coal combustion products as hazardous waste.
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus expresses skepticism about EPA regulations on coal combustion products.

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