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Rashida Tlaib: “How about injuries, people dying?”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
How about injuries, people dying?
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib highlights the human cost of PFAS contamination.

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