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State Department to add Arctic envoy
2014-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he was creating a position of envoy to the Arctic, fulfilling a longtime request of Alaskan lawmakers. The announcement, in a letter to Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), comes amid increasing concerns that other nations notably Russia are staking claims in the Arctic amid a regional race for oil, gas and minerals sparked by global climate change. Kerry told Begich that time is of the essence as the U.S. prepares to preside over the eight-nation Arctic...
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