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• Latest Action: Oct 20, 2011 Introduced in Senate

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• Committee Assignment: Senate Environment and Public Works

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• Associated General Contractors of America

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• Edison Electric Institute

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• Environmental Council of the States

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• Utility Solid Waste Activities Group

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• American Coal Council

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• American Concrete Pressure Pipe Association

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• American Forest & Paper Association

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• American Road & Transportation Builders Association

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• Associated Builders & Contractors

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• Association of American Railroads

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• Council of Industrial Boiler Owners

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• Duke Energy

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• National Association of Manufacturers

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• National Mining Association

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• National Ready Mixed Concrete Association

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• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

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• United Mine Workers of America

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• United Transportation Union

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• Western Business Roundtable

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• U. S. Chamber of Commerce

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Opposing Organizations

• Earthjustice

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• Clean Water Action

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• Wise Energy for Virginia

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• Air Alliance Houston

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• Alabama Environmental Council

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• Alabama Rivers Alliance

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• Alliance for the Great Lakes

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• Appalachian Voices

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• As You Sow

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• B.E. Cause Group

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• Bastrop County Environmental Network

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• Black Warrior Riverkeeper

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• Center for Coalfield Justice

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• Chesapeake Climate Action Network

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• Citizen Advocates United to Safeguard the Environment

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• Citizens Against Ruining the Environment

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• Citizens Coal Council

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• Citizens' Environmental Coalition

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• Civil Society Institute

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• Clark Atlanta University

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• Clean Air Task Force

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• Clean Air Watch

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• Clean Water Network

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• Clean Wisconsin Action Fund PAC

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• Coal River Mountain Watch

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• Dakota Resource Council

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• Defenders of Wildlife

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• Delaware Riverkeeper Network

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• Ecology Center

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• Environment America

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• Environmental Health Fund

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• Environmental Integrity Project

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• Environmental Justice Resource Center

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• Environmental Ministry Committee, First Presbyterian Church

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• Fall-line Alliance for Clean Environment

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• For the Love of Nature

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• French Broad Riverkeeper

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• Glynn Environmental Coalition

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• Great Old Broads for Wilderness

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• Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy

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• Greenlaw

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• Group Against Smog and Pollution

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• Healthlink Incorporated

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• Hoosier Environmental Council

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• Horry Environmental Action Team

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• Interfaith Power & Light

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• Iowa Environmental Council

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• Kentucky Environmental Foundation

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• Kentucky Resources Council, Inc

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• League of Conservation Voters

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• Legal Environmental Aid Foundation

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• Lone Tree Council

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• Milwaukee Riverkeeper

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• Missouri Coalition for the Environment

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• Multi-County Coalition

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• Natural Resources Defense Council

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• New Mexico Environmental Law Center

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• North Carolina Environmental Justice Network

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• Northwest Environmental Defense Center

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• Ogeechee Riverkeeper

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• Ohio Environmental Council

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• Ohio River Foundation

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• Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition

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• OMB Watch

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• Our Children's Earth Foundation

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• Physicians for Social Responsibility

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• Plateau Action Network

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• Prairie Rivers Network

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• Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliance

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• Save Our Rivers

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• Sierra Club

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• South Carolina Coastal Conservation League

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• Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

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• Southern Environmental Law Center

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• Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition

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• Tennessee Clean Water Network

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• Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services

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• Wenham Lake Watershed Association

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• Western Environmental Law Center

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• Western Organization of Resource Councils

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• Women’s Voices for the Earth

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• WV Highlands Conservancy

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• Youghiogheny Riverkeeper

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• Tr-Ash Talk: The Proof is in the Water | Earthjustice - January 28, 2012 by Raviya Ismail - Kay Hagan (D-NC) to vehemently oppose S.1751 legislation which would, among many things, prevent the EPA from ever regulating coal ash as a hazardous waste. In the letter, signed by three North Carolina senators and ...

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  As noted by Raviya Ismail on January 28, 2012, "Kay Hagan (D-NC) to vehemently oppose S.1751 legislation which would, among many things, prevent the EPA from ever regulating coal ash as a hazardous waste. In the letter, signed by three North Carolina senators and ..." (/url?q=http://earthjustice.org/blog/2012-january/tr-ash-talk-the-proof-is-in-the-water&sa=U&ei=KTUpT4vPM8jq2AWijs3rAg&ved=0CDgQmAEwBg&usg=AFQjCNFA6RQVEMxCtXJjkt7WWxrG8lx2Gg)
• Tr-Ash Talk: The Proof is in the Water | Earthjustice - January 27, 2012 by Raviya Ismail - Kay Hagan (D-NC) to vehemently oppose S.1751 legislation which would, among many things, prevent the EPA from ever regulating coal ash as a hazardous waste. In the letter, signed by three North Carolina senators and ...

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• Tr-Ash Talk: The Proof is in the Water | Earthjustice - January 27, 2012 by Raviya Ismail - Kay Hagan (D-NC) to vehemently oppose S.1751 legislation which would, among many things, prevent the EPA from ever regulating coal ash as a hazardous waste. In the letter, signed by three North Carolina senators and ...

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• After the Highway Bill, What Does the Future Hold for the Keystone Pipeline and Coal Ash Legislation? By William Clarkson - July 12, 2012 by jdsupra.com - On Friday, June 29th, Congress passed a comprehensive 27-month transportation bill after weeks of feverish negotiations among the bill's House and Senate conferees. A number of contentious issues had to be resolved before the bill conferees and ...

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  As noted by jdsupra.com on July 12, 2012, "On Friday, June 29th, Congress passed a comprehensive 27-month transportation bill after weeks of feverish negotiations among the bill's House and Senate conferees. A number of contentious issues had to be resolved before the bill conferees and ..." (http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/after-the-highway-bill-what-does-the-fu-84310/)
• Library of Congress Lists Books That Shaped America - July 05, 2012 by NewsMax.com - The Library of Congress named 88 books that, it says, made the United States what it is today, and they span a period of two-and-a-half centuries from Ben Franklin’s 1751 “Experiments and Observations on Electricity,” through to “The Wor ...

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  As noted by NewsMax.com on July 05, 2012, "The Library of Congress named 88 books that, it says, made the United States what it is today, and they span a period of two-and-a-half centuries from Ben Franklin’s 1751 “Experiments and Observations on Electricity,” through to “The Wor ..." (http://www.newsmax.com/US/books-shaped-americacongress/2012/07/05/id/444455)
• Bashing aliens reliable chestnut - March 03, 2012 by Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - WASHINGTON – Stoking fears of foreigners is perhaps the oldest trick in the political playbook. From Benjamin Franklin’s 1751 warning that Pennsylvania would soon become a “Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize ...

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  As noted by Fort Wayne Journal Gazette on March 03, 2012, "WASHINGTON – Stoking fears of foreigners is perhaps the oldest trick in the political playbook. From Benjamin Franklin’s 1751 warning that Pennsylvania would soon become a “Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize ..." (http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120302/EDIT05/303029995/1144/EDIT05)