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Ed Whitfield: “There's not any practical way available for anyone using reasonable cost figures to comply with this new rule, because…”

On the recordOctober 6, 2015
There's not any practical way available for anyone using reasonable cost figures to comply with this new rule, because the emission standard is so low that it simply cannot be achieved.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield argues that new emission standards for coal plants are unachievable.

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