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Article: SEN. KERRY AMENDMENT FORCES ARMY CORPS TO ACKNOWLEDGE GLOBAL WARMING
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 15, 2007
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The office of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., issued the following press release:
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) today introduced legislation that would direct the Army Corps of Engineers to factor climate change into all future water projects and no longer build bridges, levees, damns or other projects with no regard for the environment.
Kerry's legislation is co-sponsored by Senators Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.), Susan Collins (R-ME), Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Joseph Biden (D-Del.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.).
A link to the Kerry legislation is here: http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/press/pdf/5_10_07_WRDA_climate_change.pdf
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