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On the recordJune 20, 2023
the amount of carbon already in kind of the affirmed assets of petroleum companies is 200 percent more than what will take us from here to 1.5 degrees
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley discusses the excessive carbon assets of petroleum companies.

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