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Kirsten Gillibrand: “If you believe that mercury is a threat to public health but oppose the remedy of reducing mercury air pollution from…”

On the recordJanuary 17, 2017
If you believe that mercury is a threat to public health but oppose the remedy of reducing mercury air pollution from power plants because it is too costly, what, then, do you think you should do, or what should be done to address the mercury pollution?
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand questions Pruitt on addressing mercury pollution despite cost concerns.

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