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On the recordSeptember 5, 2017
the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to weaken environmental health protections, attack fundamental science, and also to propose extreme budget and staff reductions will do nothing, in my opinion, but undermine EPA's efforts to protect human health and the environment
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey

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Pallone criticizes the Trump administration's actions against the EPA's effectiveness post-Hurricane Harvey.

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