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Do the presidential candidates' barbs over energy policy hold up?

Michael Allan McCrae | October 18, 2012 | 1:36 am Energy Coal 

During the second presidential debate on Tuesday, Mitt Romney accused the President Obama and his administration of slowing down permitting and that "oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land." The people at PoltiFact rated the statement...

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