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Ed Markey: “Much of the lessons that were learned were built into a pipeline safety bill passed through this committee last year and…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2021
Much of the lessons that were learned were built into a pipeline safety bill passed through this committee last year and is now the law in the country.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the importance of lessons learned from a past pipeline explosion for new safety legislation.

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