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On the recordMarch 18, 2013
It would be ill-advised for our country to completely eliminate coal as an energy source in light of the fact that we have the world's greatest supply of coal.
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Howard Griffith
Republican · Virginia

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Griffith argues against the complete elimination of coal as an energy source.

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