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Ed Markey: There is a war on coal in America. But this war is being waged by cheaper, cleaner sources of energy, not the Obama…

On the recordJuly 18, 2012
There is a war on coal in America. But this war is being waged by cheaper, cleaner sources of energy, not the Obama Administration.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey argues that the decline of coal is due to market forces, not government actions.

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