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On the recordNovember 14, 2017
As long as there is no price on carbon, the corollary of that is that there is no benefit to low carbon.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse discusses the challenges of promoting low carbon technologies without a carbon pricing mechanism.

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