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Rush Holt: It would require drilling in important fisheries and sensitive environments like Bristol Bay in Alaska and the Arctic…

On the recordJune 5, 2013
It would require drilling in important fisheries and sensitive environments like Bristol Bay in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean, all without enacting key drilling safety reforms, following one of the greatest environmental disasters in our history.
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Rush Holt
New Jersey

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Holt criticizes a bill allowing oil drilling in sensitive areas without safety reforms.

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