NRDC: Exporting U.S. Crude Oil Would Boost Climate Pollution and Risks to Communities

 

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015 –The following is a statement by Franz Matzner, director of the Beyond Oil Initiative at the Natural Resources Defense Council, on a pending House bill—which faces a presidential veto—to remove the four-decade-old prohibition on U.S. exports of crude oil:

“Lifting the oil export ban is a giveaway to the oil industry that would undermine the progress our country is making to use more clean energy and fight climate change. It means…