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On the recordMarch 27, 2012
Isn't it a self-fulfilling prophesy that if you issue rules that nobody could meet that we won't have electricity generation by coal?
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus questions the impact of regulatory rules on coal electricity generation.

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