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Alan Simpson: “The average award per case was more than $70,000. One long-running lawsuit in Texas that involved an endangered…”

On the recordMay 8, 2001
The average award per case was more than $70,000. One long-running lawsuit in Texas that involved an endangered salamander netted lawyers for the Sierra Club and other plaintiffs more than $3.5 in taxpayers' funds, as the chairman has already pointed out. That is money that could be used for other environmental purposes and actually cleaning up the environment and taking care of the backlog in maintenance we have in our National Forests and in our National Parks.
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Alan Simpson
Wyoming
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Discussing the financial impact of environmental litigation on taxpayer funds.

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