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Sanders looks to 'oil dependence' to fund Green New Deal

Philip Athey, E&E News reporter

Published: Friday, August 23, 2019

Sen. Bernie Sanders' version of the Green New Deal, released this week, said it would find trillions of dollars to combat climate change and grow the economy in part by "scaling back military spending on maintaining global oil dependence" but did not explain exactly where those cuts would be.

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By Michael Doyle and Jennifer Yachnin in Greenwire 1:31 PM EDT

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