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On the recordApril 14, 2021
And the cruel irony of all this is, as America dismantles its fossil fuel economy, the rest of the world is expanding its use of coal, natural gas, and oil and emitting greenhouse gases at an alarmingly increasing rate.
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David McKinley
Republican · West Virginia

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McKinley highlights the contradiction of U.S. fossil fuel job losses while global fossil fuel use increases.

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