He cut them out because of a pet peeve. He didn't like clean energy because windmills were built off the coast near his golf course in Scotland. Since then, There's been a war on clean energy, not to mention the corruption that the oil and gas industry, under the leadership of Harold Ham, at least if you read the papers, promised him a billion dollars if he'd kill clean energy. Well, he's cleaned clean energy and the odds are pretty high he got a lot of that money. I want to thank my colleagues Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse, who I am co releasing this report with. (10:05–10:18)
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