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Catherine Cortez Masto: “We felt, the Governor, many of us, including some of our Congressional delegates, that they were exploiting a regulatory…”

On the recordJanuary 17, 2018
We felt, the Governor, many of us, including some of our Congressional delegates, that they were exploiting a regulatory loophole to classify that waste as low level hazard so that they can bury it in shallow graves there when in actuality it was and should have been handled as high level, radioactive waste.
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Democratic · Nevada

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Cortez Masto criticizes the classification of waste to bypass regulations.

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