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Kelly Armstrong: “If we are going to say things like stopping the politics and all of that and then also infer that it is the free market…”

On the recordApril 8, 2019
If we are going to say things like stopping the politics and all of that and then also infer that it is the free market that ended up causing most of the coal industry's problems, without at least recognizing that there was a combination of unrealistic Federal regulation, tax credits, and allowing primacy on an electric grid that was neither designed nor prepared for that, it seems to be a little disingenuous
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Kelly Armstrong
Republican · North Dakota

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Discussing the complexities of coal industry challenges and federal regulations.

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