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Kirsten Gillibrand: “Inaction on climate change will cost the Federal Government and our taxpayers billions and billions and billions of…”

On the recordJune 17, 2014
Inaction on climate change will cost the Federal Government and our taxpayers billions and billions and billions of dollars.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand warns about the financial consequences of not addressing climate change.

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