Renewable Energy Doesn't Need Obama's Clean Power Plan to Grow

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Feb. 10, 2016

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"'So above and beyond the tax credits for wind and solar, there is a regulatory push to shift from coal to renewables,' said Nathan Richardson, a visiting fellow at Resources for the Future, a Washington-based research group."

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Nathan Richardson is an attorney and university fellow at RFF, where he specializes in environmental law and economics.

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