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Why we opposed new EPA rules on power plants

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Michael W. Burnette is senior vice president and chief operating officer for power supply at North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation, the Raleigh-based wholesale power supply cooperative owned by most of the state’s electric cooperatives.

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