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Paul Tonko: “Excluding climate from the budget, eliminating research and voluntary industry partnership programs and weakening…”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2020
Excluding climate from the budget, eliminating research and voluntary industry partnership programs and weakening modest, existing rules... does not give me any indication that the Agency is taking this environmental threat seriously.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko criticizes budget decisions affecting climate change initiatives.

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