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Paul Tonko: “The good news is that sites are being cleaned up. When sites are cleaned up, the surrounding community benefits from a…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2015
The good news is that sites are being cleaned up. When sites are cleaned up, the surrounding community benefits from a cleaner, healthier environment, and returning abandoned, contaminated land to productive use improves the local economy.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Highlighting the positive outcomes of the Superfund program on communities and economies.

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