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million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use naturalgas and hydrogen in their operations forever into the future. It seems clear the tax credits are an attempt to try to make naturalgas competitive again through taxpayers subsidies after U.S.
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No Change In Political Landscape I'll end by iterating what is glaringly and disappointingly unchanged, despite the change in the political party in power, and that is the fact that there's been no change in the political landscape and the measures that have been put in place to protect residents and workers.
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