Lifting the crude oil export ban would be terrible for the climate

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By Clayton AldernAug 21, 2015, 6:20 pm97 pts
Since 1975, the U.S. has restricted the export of crude oil in the name of energy security, and somehow that dirty protectionism even managed to make it through the Reagan era. But perhaps no longer. Republicans in Congress are pushing to allow oil companies to export crude to overseas refineries, and they…

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