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Stop the trains

Mon., Oct. 30, 2017

While California continues to burn due to epic drought caused by global warming, EPA head Scott Pruitt gleefully proclaimed that “the war on coal is over.” Has it occurred to anyone else that this person is criminally insane.

Fellow citizens, the coal trains that incessantly role through Spokane are carrying the poison that will make life on earth unsustainable for our children, as well as Scott Pruitt’s children. Stop the trains; demand clean energy now!

Paul Grove

Spokane

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