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Ed Markey: “For the first three months of 2012, coal only produced 36 percent of the electricity in the country.”

On the recordMay 31, 2012
For the first three months of 2012, coal only produced 36 percent of the electricity in the country.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey highlights the declining share of coal in electricity generation.

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