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February 15, 2013

Mr. President: You Can't Drill AND Fight Climate

Kate Gordon, Huffington Post


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I watched the State of the Union speech Tuesday night with my mom at her house in northeast Vermont, which I finally reached after two cancelled, and two extremely delayed, flights -- all disrupted due to yet another history-making storm. So I've been thinking a lot about climate change these last 24 hours.

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