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On the recordDecember 5, 2017
The GAO has said that number goes above $50 billion annually before the end of the century in coastal losses...
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse discusses projected coastal economic losses due to climate change.

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