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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.
Said by
Howard Griffith
Republican · Virginia

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

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