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On the recordOctober 3, 2011
I am wondering what you feel the authorities are that you have right now with respect to green infrastructure and whether you consider that to be a promising means of trying to protect our waterways from the nutrient pollution that we are seeing so often.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Senator Whitehouse discusses green infrastructure's potential to combat nutrient pollution.

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