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Ed Markey: Let's be honest. That is welfare for coal executives making rate payers pay 30 percent more. That is just wrong.

On the recordMay 31, 2012
Let's be honest. That is welfare for coal executives making rate payers pay 30 percent more. That is just wrong.
Said by
Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey criticizes coal companies for burdening rate payers with higher costs.

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