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Paul Tonko: “Do you think it is important to have a federal floor of protections for coal ash disposal?”

On the recordMarch 17, 2015
Do you think it is important to have a federal floor of protections for coal ash disposal?
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko questions the necessity of federal protections for coal ash disposal.

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