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New FEMA Study: Climate Change Will Greatly Increase Flood Risk, Debt
Posted by Huffington Post: Peter Lehner on June 20th, 2013
Huffington Post: The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in a study finally released last week after five years in the making, predicted that areas at risk of flooding in the United States would increase 45 percent by 2100, largely because of climate change. That prediction is dire news, not just for residents of flood zones, but for all taxpayers, who fund FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). With flood risk on the rise, the program will have to insure 80 percent more properties than it does today, and...
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Keystone Pipeline, Tar Sands Oil, and Climate Change Are Not in Our National Interest
Posted by Huffington Post: Peter Lehner on September 1st, 2011
Huffington Post: Over the next few months, the State Department will examine whether the proposed Keystone XL pipeline running from the Alberta tar sands oil fields to the Texas Gulf Coast is in America's national interest.
To answer that question, you have to decide what kind of future you want for our country.
Do you want America to create cars that can go twice as far on a gallon of gas, employ 150,000 workers to build, and cut our oil use by more than 3 million barrels a day?
Or do you want America to...