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Seattle Mayor: City-owned buildings to get off fossil fuels

| January 9, 2020 1:55 PM

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says Seattle will no longer use fossil fuels like natural gas to heat, cool and cook in new and substantially altered city-owned buildings and will come up with a plan by 2021 to transition all city-owned buildings to clean electric systems over time. Durkan included those directives in a “Green New Deal” executive order Wednesday.

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