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INSIGHTS away from coal for the past several years. It is simply not of domestic inland rivers. Competitors from South

America are trying to do the same thing. Are we worth the risk to invest in an expensive plant that prob- doing enough to maintain our inland infrastructure, ably won’t be cost-effective to operate. It is true that coal locks and dams?

exports have seen a rebound over the past couple of years,

Having the Inland Waterway System we have in our coun- but they are still well below their peak of more than 125 million tons in 2012. It is important to understand that try bene