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On the recordMarch 2, 2010
Our goal is not to eliminate surface mining of coal but to limit the practice of blowing off the top of a mountain and dumping the fill in streams.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander discusses a bill aimed at regulating mountaintop mining practices.

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