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Lamar Alexander: “So, it would seem to me that we're just introducing one more element of policy, the Clean Power Plan, in the name of…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
So, it would seem to me that we're just introducing one more element of policy, the Clean Power Plan, in the name of carbon-free emissions that discriminates against the single largest producer of carbon-free emissions and makes it more difficult to build more reactors.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Criticizing the Clean Power Plan for disadvantaging nuclear energy producers.

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