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Friday, October 19, 2012

Is Obama Really Waging a War on Big Coal?

Is Obama Really Waging a War on Big Coal?

Jason Plautz, InsideClimate
Power plant operators are shuttering aging coal facilities at record rates—a trend presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his supporters pin squarely on EPA air pollution rules."People in the coal industry feel like it's getting crushed by your policies," Romney told Obama during the first debate. "Stop the War on Coal. Fire Obama" signs dot lawns in coal-producing swing states, and Twitter is full of posts commenting on the "war on coal" refrain.http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20121015/mitt-romney-war-on-coal-natural-gas-prices-brattle-group-2012-elections-ohio-virginia-pennsylvania

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