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Governors Ask Obama to Weigh Climate Impact of Coal Ports
2013-03-26 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obamas administration should weigh the climate-change impact of burning coal in Asia when considering whether to approve Pacific coal- export terminals, two Western governors said. In a letter to the White House Council of Environmental Quality, the Democratic governors, John Kitzhaber of Oregon and and Jay Inslee of Washington, said the administration must expand its review of the projects and consider the carbon dioxide that would be released when the coal is burned for power....
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