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Lisa Murkowski: “I didn't hear all the debate. Do I understand that there is nothing in the Bingaman-Daschle bill that would prohibit a…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2002
I didn't hear all the debate. Do I understand that there is nothing in the Bingaman-Daschle bill that would prohibit a scenario that would suggest that maybe the Three Gorges dam, which is in the process of being completed and would classify perhaps as an incremental renewable, could theoretically sell credits to U.S. firms that would need credit in order to comply with a 10-percent mandate by the year 2020; so this is not limited to just encouraging U.S. construction and development of new renewables that would give them credit?
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Questioning the implications of the Bingaman-Daschle bill on renewable energy credits.

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