Scott Slesinger

Natural Resources Defense Council

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Legislative Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, he formerly worked with the US Environmental Protection Agency

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The federal budget bill that still awaits final approval on Friday is 459 pages long, and nowhere does the word "California" appear, but this state accounts for about 10 percent of…

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