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Environmentalists sue bank over loan guarantee to domestic coal broker
2013-08-01 14:37:25| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Above the harbor in Baltimores industrial Curtis Hill district is a one-acre urban farm. Jason Reed, a community organizer who works there, described the view. I can look out over the harbor, and you can see the piles and piles of coal, he said. That coal is the subject of a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a coalition of environmental groups against the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The groups are challenging the federal agencys financing of fossil fuel exports from ports in Baltimore...
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