(fixes slug)Premier Matteo Renzi
on Tuesday rejected accusations his administration sold out to
oil industry lobbies. "We believe coal-powered plants need to
go," he told the Senate in reply to two no-confidence motions
from center-right parties over an oil industry probe. "We shut
two of them down, we announced a third is being shut down, and
we put a stop to two more that were switching from oil to coal -
this administration has blocked five power plants without losing
a single job". The center-left premier also denied accusations
his government is against clean energy. "We (Italy) is a leader
in the renewable energy sector and we will be able to continue
being the leaders on the path to our 2020-2030 targets," Renzi
said.
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