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Cynthia Lummis: “It is my experience in the west that the greatest threat to western open lands, it is not oil and gas... it is houses.”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2009
It is my experience in the west that the greatest threat to western open lands, it is not oil and gas... it is houses.
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Cynthia Lummis
Republican · Wyoming

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Lummis emphasizes that housing development threatens open lands more than oil and gas extraction.

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