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On the recordAugust 5, 2009
Why don't we have a clean energy standard? Why do we leave out, for example, nuclear power, which produces 70 percent of our carbon-free electricity today?
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander questions the exclusion of nuclear power from clean energy standards.

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