In 2009 in this committee and on the House Floor, Mr. Waxman and I built in $60 billion for clean coal technology, carbon capture and sequestration.
Ed Markey: “In 2009 in this committee and on the House Floor, Mr. Waxman and I built in $60 billion for clean coal technology…”
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Markey discusses past funding for clean coal technology and its lack of support.
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