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Obama's Budget Includes Coalfields Aid
2015-02-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Charleston Gazette: Coalfield communities struggling with mounting job losses as the nations energy markets restructure would receive hundreds of millions of dollars in new money to help create jobs and plan economic diversification programs, under the new budget proposed Monday by President Obama. The administration is proposing $1 billion in new spending over the next five years to clean up abandoned strip mines and $2 million in tax credits aimed at spurring innovation on technology to capture carbon pollution...
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