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Paul Tonko: “All the evidence points to a trend in recent years of more numerous and more severe fires.”

On the recordOctober 3, 2017
All the evidence points to a trend in recent years of more numerous and more severe fires.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko discusses the increasing severity and frequency of wildfires.

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