Dan Brouillette, Rick Perry’s No. 2, sees the bright side of the energy debate

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For Dan Brouillette, the rejection of an Energy Department plan to subsidize coal and nuclear plants could actually be a good thing.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in January rejected a proposal to give incentives for nuclear and coal plants to handle outages caused by weather and other problems.

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