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Even in the U.S., more than 15 percent of electricity is still generated by the burning of coal, a fuel that is widely considered to be emblematic of the 1800s. Moreover, our domestic production is currently helping feed the increasing worldwide appetite for coal since, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. is a net exporter of coal (exporting more than we import).

The rub in all this is not only that the continued utilization of coal disproportionately accelerates global warming, but it is also because coal utilization leads to . . . . (read more here).

Properly impatient with the current majority party's intransigence on climate change, Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) on Thursday sought unanimous consent of the full body for a very simple resolution: "Sea levels are rising."

The Senator then explained . . . (read more here).

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