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On the recordOctober 26, 2015
Ironically, some of the first impacted by the President's Clean Power Plan are those who can least afford it where poverty is rampant in places like the Crow Tribe, in places like West Virginia.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin criticizes the Clean Power Plan's negative effects on impoverished communities.

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