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Barack Obama: So if somebody wants to build a coal power plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them.

On the recordJanuary 7, 2015
So if somebody wants to build a coal power plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama stated that building coal plants would lead to bankruptcy under new regulations.

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