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'''Rural electric cooperatives ''' (RECs), which receive funding support from the federal [[Rural Utilities Service]], play a major role both in the proposed expansion of coal-fired electrical generating capacity, and in the lobbying and publicity efforts that promote the buildout. RECs receive 80 percent of their power from coal, significantly above the national average of 50 percent.<ref>Steven Mufson, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031203784.html "Government Suspends Lending for Coal Plants,"] Washington Post, March 13, 2008</ref>