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Australia is the last Western holdout on the climate crisis. But some states and businesses are calling for change – CNN
With states and industry forging ahead on climate solutions, the country’s most impactful climate action might not come from the man leading the nation.
(CNN)Deep in northeast Australia’s outback, underneathgrassy eucalypt woodlands and vast grazing lands scattered with cattle stations, lies one of the world’s largest known untapped coal reserves.
Queensland’s Galilee Basin, an area roughly the size of Britain, is settoproduce its first coal in 2021, to be moved by rail300 kilometers to the coast, where it will be loaded onto cargo ships that will sail through the Great Barrier Reef to ship it to Asia.
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