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Gary Peters: “How do you clean that up? It may not even be possible to clean up until it does absolutely catastrophic damage to the…”

On the recordJuly 21, 2015
How do you clean that up? It may not even be possible to clean up until it does absolutely catastrophic damage to the environment and to the drinking water supplies for people.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Discussing the challenges of cleaning up pipeline breaks in fragile ecosystems.

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