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Betty McCollum: “It falls on the taxpayer to pay for the cleanup for these mines.”

On the recordMarch 14, 2016
It falls on the taxpayer to pay for the cleanup for these mines.
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Betty McCollum
Democratic · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

McCollum highlights the financial burden of cleaning up abandoned mines on taxpayers.

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