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Cory Booker: What is often less acknowledged though is the environmental injustice communities bear, this disproportionate burden…

On the recordDecember 5, 2017
What is often less acknowledged though is the environmental injustice communities bear, this disproportionate burden when these things impact.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Senator Booker addresses the environmental injustices faced by vulnerable communities.

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