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RFK Jr: Obama Is 'Indentured Servant' To Coal Industry

 
"Clean coal is a dirty lie," says environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer money to develop it "indentured servants" of the coal industry. (link)

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