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Ed Markey: “These mines contaminate water supplies, they devastate the environment, and they threaten public health.”

On the recordJuly 18, 2012
These mines contaminate water supplies, they devastate the environment, and they threaten public health.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the harmful effects of mountaintop coal mining on health and the environment.

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