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Westneat: Seattle falls short of global-warming targets

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Mark Matassa
Mayor

Seattle is known as one of the nation’s greenest cities, which lends a certain cred to the Shell Oil protests. But as Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat reveals, the city fell short of its own greenhouse-gas targets. Former Mayor Greg Nickels set some pretty high standards as part of the Kyoto global-warming protocol, but one line buried in a recent City Hall report revealed that Seattle didn't meet the goal.

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