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On the recordJuly 15, 2012
You must remember if you go to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and other states where communities depend upon coal, you say to those communities, you should go away.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield criticizes EPA regulations impacting coal-dependent communities.

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