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On the recordSeptember 19, 2012
This war on coal must stop. These ideologically driven regulations must not be implemented until the technology and the economics justify their cost.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield calls for an end to regulations harming the coal industry.

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