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Great Barrier Reef

The Ninth Circuit refused Thursday to rehear en banc a challenge over the U.S. Import-Export Bank’s $4.8 billion funding of a natural gas project thought to threaten the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit refused Thursday to rehear en banc a challenge over the U.S. Import-Export Bank’s $4.8 billion funding of a natural gas project thought to threaten the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

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