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Frank Lautenberg: This spill, this ugly material was allowed to cover areas of residence and community and that we wind up, though this…

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
This spill, this ugly material was allowed to cover areas of residence and community and that we wind up, though this spill was nearly 50 times bigger than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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Frank Lautenberg
Democratic · New Jersey

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Lautenberg compares the coal spill's impact to the Exxon Valdez disaster.

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