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    The existing political and regulatory systems within states demand that they put their citizens and rate-payers first, Freudenthal said. "I don't appoint a public service commission to have them worry a whole lot about the rate-payers in Colorado, or Utah, or California or Washington" Freudenthal said. As governor of the nation's leading coal-producing state, Freudenthal singled out California for criticism for its laws effectively banning the new importation of power from coal-fired plants. Full Article at Newsvine
    I don't appoint a public service commission to have them worry a whole lot about the rate-payers in Colorado, or Utah, or California or Washington
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Wyo. governor talks energy with Western lawmakers
  1. Their use of coal-fired electrons has gone up in the last three years, not down. While they've done all of this 'Oh we're virtuous about coal.'
    – Dave Freudenthal SOURCE: Newsvine 1 month ago
  2. To some degree, it's like they're looking out their front yard and saying, 'We've got a great ocean view,' and throwing their beer cans in the backyard ... And Wyoming happens to be the beer can place.
    – Dave Freudenthal SOURCE: Newsvine 1 month ago
  3. Cooperation is contradictory to the fundamental way we relate to each other ... As states, we compete.
    – Dave Freudenthal SOURCE: Newsvine 1 month ago
  4. We compete for economic development; we compete for water resources; we compete for ink in the newspapers; we compete for attracting good and bright minds to our universities ... We compete.
    SOURCE: Newsvine 1 month ago

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