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On the recordJuly 20, 2021
Poor communities across the country are surrounded by hundreds of giant polluting plants, but right now this is all legal under the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Sarbanes highlights the legal issues allowing pollution in poor communities.

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