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US senators: Budget proposal stifles contamination cleanup

by Associated Press
| March 4, 2020 12:05 AM

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Trump administration's proposed budget for the U.S. Energy Department drew criticism Tuesday as Democratic senators voiced concerns that spending to clean up sites contaminated by decades of nuclear research and bomb-making was being cut in order to fund modernization of the nation's nuclear arsenal.

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