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Chris Wright: “Air quality for 50 years in the United States has gotten…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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Secretary of Energy Chris Wright talks gas prices, energy rates and cost-of-living worries

Published | Video Starts at 09:22

The air quality is, is, they're not meaningful movers of air quality. Very old coal plants be passed some monies to upgrade very old coal plants to put pollution controls on them. Air quality for 50 years in the United States has gotten better every year. That trend of continuing improvement in American air quality that will continue on keeping the existing coal plants open are not a meaningful threat to air quality. (09:22–09:28)

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Asserts that U.S. air quality has improved annually for the past 50 years.

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