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Governor of Washington State coal is "the largest

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Finally... someone in power is talking some sense:

"It is clear that there are ramifications ultimately if we burn the enormous amounts of Powder River Basin coal that are exported through our ports… It is an enormous number of tons of carbon dioxide that will be released into the atmosphere, it doesn’t matter where it’s burned, it ends up in Puget Sound. That is a physical fact.

The challenge is to figure out, frankly, for our state from a policy standpoint is where you sort of draw the line in evaluating those impacts from any carbon-based system. I think that’s a challenge for us. I will say that from what I know, this is the largest decision we will be making as a state from a carbon pollution standpoint certainly during my lifetime, and nothing comes even close to it. So I’m going to be giving some thought to this."

Here is video of his remarks.
https://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/01/22/1480481/governor-inslee-on-coal-exports-this-is-the-largest-decision-we-will-be-making-as-a-state-from-a-carbon-pollution-standpoint/?mobile=nc