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July 28, 2014

U.S. gets greener by sending coal abroad

  • Coal exports shift some pollution — and the burden for cleaning it up — onto other countries' balance sheets.
    • By DINA CAPPIELLO
    Associated Press

    NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — As the Obama administration weans the U.S. off dirty fuels blamed for global warming, energy companies have been sending more of America's unwanted energy leftovers to other parts of the world where they could create even more pollution.

    This fossil fuel trade threatens to undermine President Barack Obama's strategy for reducing the gases blamed for climate change and reveals a little-discussed side effect of countries acting alone on a global problem. The contribution of this exported pollution to global warming is not something the administration wants to measure, or even talk about.


     
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