| 1. | Federal tax codes and environmental laws are also essential to its prosperity.
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| 2. | More important to the mining industry, Western Australia has fewer environmental laws.
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| 3. | Brooks is also as committed as Dole to weakening federal environmental laws.
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| 4. | The companies rely on tax breaks, lax environmental laws and cheap labor.
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| 5. | It will mean the citizen can become the watchdog of environmental law,
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| 6. | Much of that flows from old mines built before modern environmental laws.
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| 7. | But Clinton also opposed Republican congressional efforts to roll back environmental laws.
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| 8. | We think citizens do have this right to enforce the environmental laws.
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| 9. | These environmental laws go far beyond land use or local zoning laws,
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| 10. | But they appear exempt from the environmental laws of the United States.
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