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Obama's climate plan threatens US forests
2015-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Obama's signature environmental initiative, his Clean Power Plan, is designed to fight climate change and crack down on America's carbon-emitting power plants. But behind the scenes, a dispute is raging over obscure language that could promote the rapid destruction of America's carbon-storing forests. This highly technical but consequential fight over the Environmental Protection Agency's approach to "bioenergy'--energy derived from trees, crops, or other plants--has gotten lost in the...
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