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On the recordOctober 6, 2015
if you're underestimating by your 2014 June analysis and your 2015, and you drop off 70 coal-fired power plants, base-load going to my friend, Jerry McNerney's question, your final analysis you're going to under-report the impact because you have sliced major gigawatt production of coal in this country with no explanation that we can find in any of these documents.
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus criticizes EPA for underestimating coal power capacity and its impact on generation.

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