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Administration Is Seen Retreating on Environment in Talks on Pacific Trade
2014-01-15 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration is retreating from previous demands of strong international environmental protections in order to reach agreement on a sweeping Pacific trade deal that is a pillar of President Obama's strategic shift to Asia, according to documents obtained by WikiLeaks, environmentalists and people close to the contentious trade talks. The negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would be one of the world's biggest trade agreements, have exposed deep rifts over environmental...
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