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Chris Wright: “If we had not stopped the closure of coal plants that that…”

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

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Gary Peters Grills Chris Wright On Federal Order To Keep Coal Plant Scheduled For Closure Online

Published | Video Starts at 04:20

That's been way slower than it should be. And I blame federal regulations and previous FERC orders on that. But the thing we can do immediately is If we had not stopped the closure of coal plants that that winter storm fern that came, hundreds of Americans would have died. I need to prevent that from happening. Our team needs to keep the lights on. We need to keep people alive. (04:20–04:30)

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Asserts that stopping the closure of coal plants prevented deaths during a winter storm.

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