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John Shimkus: “If you label an emittent as a toxic, then there is no beneficial use anymore.”

On the recordApril 13, 2011
If you label an emittent as a toxic, then there is no beneficial use anymore.
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus discusses the implications of labeling coal ash as toxic.

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