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On the recordMarch 16, 2011
What I am interested in doing is making sure if we burn it, we have a lot of it, as we burn it to create electricity that we just burn it in a far more, a far cleaner way.
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Thomas Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper emphasizes the need for cleaner coal technology in electricity generation.

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