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Ed Markey: If you make rules more onerous, and we put more processes in place that basically make the decommissioning more…

On the recordMay 5, 2022
If you make rules more onerous, and we put more processes in place that basically make the decommissioning more expensive, it is going to have the effect of these plants hanging around a long time.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey warns against overly burdensome regulations that could delay decommissioning.

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