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		<title>Opinion: New metric shows how much Washington squanders environmental funding</title>
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		<title>Letter: ‘The public was deceived by the IBR project team into believing that the tunnel option was not feasible’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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