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On the recordMarch 11, 2021
Any conversation we're having about the conversion to a clean energy economy being economically painful is at best economically naive, and at worst immoral.
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Sean Casten
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Casten argues that transitioning to clean energy is economically beneficial, not painful.

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