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Chellie Pingree: For Maine and so many other communities across the Nation, as I have heard listening to my colleagues speak, it is just…

On the recordNovember 13, 2019
For Maine and so many other communities across the Nation, as I have heard listening to my colleagues speak, it is just not an abstraction; it is a tangible threat to our communities, to the people who live there.
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Chellie Pingree
Democratic · Maine

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Pingree highlights the real impacts of climate change on communities.

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