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Ed Markey: Those are ratepayer funds that were put there to clean up the power plant.

On the recordMay 5, 2022
Those are ratepayer funds that were put there to clean up the power plant.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey insists that decommissioning funds should not benefit private companies.

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