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Paul Tonko: drastic and unnecessary market interventions under the false pretense of an emergency to bail out uncompetitive…

On the recordJune 6, 2018
drastic and unnecessary market interventions under the false pretense of an emergency to bail out uncompetitive generators... are unacceptable.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko criticizes government interventions in energy markets.

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