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Joe Barton: Let us be honest. You are not going to build a coal plant with those regulations, and you will build, probably, almost…

On the recordMarch 4, 2013
Let us be honest. You are not going to build a coal plant with those regulations, and you will build, probably, almost all natural gas.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton critiques EPA regulations for favoring natural gas over coal.

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