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A canary for coal mines
2014-07-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
High Country News: Late last month, a federal judge in Colorado stopped a coal-mining lease expansion from going forward, claiming that the agencies involved had not worked hard enough to account for climate impacts, either in the mines operations or in the amount of emissions that could come from the burning of the coal. The decision came just after the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new set of regulations for emissions from power plants, and, though it may be appealed, it could set new precedents in...
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