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As calls grow within the United States for the White House to ban Russian oil imports, press secretary Jen Psaki says the Biden administration has sought to maximize impact on President Putin and Russia while minimizing impact to us and our allies and partners.Watch Psaki remarks in the player above.Natural gas prices hit a record Thursday for a second day in a row as restrictions on oil and gas were increasingly treated as a possibility on the eighth day of the war.Biden has been reluctant to curb Russian oil shipments to the U.S. or slap on energy sanctions in ways that would reduce supply as gas prices at the pump are already climbing for Americans.We don ;t have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy, she said, adding the move would raise prices at the gas pump for the American people around the world because it would reduce the supply available.Earlier in the day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she supports banni stanley cup ng Russian oil imports to the U.S., a hefty nod that gives fresh currency for an idea in Congress already backed by wide sw stanley cup aths of Republicans.The White House has insisted stanley cup all options remain on the table.Psaki also talked about the latest round of U.S. sanctions against Russia, targeting Putin press secretary and more Russian oligarchs.Psaki said one of the big factors in choosing the targets of the sanctions is the individual proximity to Putin. 82 Stne Bermuda readies for Category 3 Hurricane Humberto to pass by
WILMINGTON, N.C. 鈥?Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by Florence floodwaters.Forecasters predicted the water will continue to rise Saturday at the L.V. Sutton Power Station. Duke Energy spokeswoman Paige Sheehan said the utility doesn 8 adidas originals 217;t believe the breach poses a significant threat of increased flooding to nearby communities.Sheehan said the company can ;t rule out that ash might be escaping the flooded dump and flowing through the lake into the river.No environmental regulators were at the scene to help catalog the potential harm to the Cape Fear, with officials citing unsafe conditions.Mike Regan, secretary of the state Department of Environmental Quality, said Saturday that aerial video and photos of the site show potential coal ash flowing into the river.Whe stanley cup n the environment is conducive, we will put people on the ground to verify the amount of potential coal ash that co stanley cup uld have left and entered those flood waters, Regan said.Floodwaters breached several points early Friday in the earthen dam at Sutton Lake, the plant 1,100-acre 445-hectare reservoir. Lake water then flooded one of three large coal ash dumps lining the lakeshore.The ash left over when coal is burned to generate electricity contains mercury, lead, arsenic and other toxic heavy metals. Duke said Friday the plant inundated basi |
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发表于 2024-12-24 09:44:43
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