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Washington: Tacoma Protesters Halt Natural Gas Plant Construction

HeadlineDec 12, 2017

In Tacoma, Washington, a pair of protesters chained themselves to a crane Monday at the construction site of a massive 8 million-gallon liquefied natural gas storage plant. The civil disobedience action shut down work at the site for much of the day. Activists say that, if completed, the natural gas plant would pose a threat to a nearby residential neighborhood—and to the Earth’s climate.

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