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Shelley Moore Capito: “The Biden administration was trying to force the premature…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Published | Video Starts at 06:48

All of the above. What does that mean for your state? Well, that means a lot. It means the elongation of a lot of the power generation from coal, where The Biden administration was trying to force the premature closing of many of our coal fired power plants. but also the Biden administration was going to prevent you from being able to build a natural gas new facility to power. We have to do things that make sense and baseload energy is absolutely critical here. (06:48–06:56)

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Asserts that the Biden administration attempted to prematurely close coal-fired power plants.

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