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一 |     PORTLAND, Ore. -- Federal regulators on Thursday approved the expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest over the protest of environmental groups and top officials in West Coast states, who said it goes against the region’s plans to address climate change and could pose a wildfire risk.The project, known as GTN Xpress, aims to expand the capacity of the Gas Transmission Northwest pipeline, which runs through Idaho, Washington and Oregon, by about 150 million cubic feet (4.2 million cubic meters) of natural gas per day. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave it the green light in a vote on Thursday.TC Energy plans to modify three compressor stations along the pipeline — in Kootenai County, Idaho; Walla Walla County, Washington; and Sherman County, Oregon. Compressor stations help maintain the pressure and flow of gas over long distances in a pipeline. Environmental groups criticized the decision of the commission, which "failed to listen to Senators, Governors, State Attorneys General, Tribes, and the public in its rubber stamp of unnecessary fracked gas in the Northwest,” said Audrey Leonard, staff attorney for Columbia Riverkeeper, an environmental nonprofit, in a statement.Leonard said potential spills and explosions on the pipeline, which was built in the 1960s, would not only harm the environment but also present a heightened wildfire risk in the arid regions it passes through.“An explosion of that level in eastern Washington or eastern Oregon would be catastrophic,” she said.Leonard said Columbia Riverkeeper will appeal the federal regulators’ decision and submit a petition for a rehearing. The pipeline belongs to TC Energy of Calgary, Canada — the same company behind the now-abandoned Keystone XL crude oil pipeline. The company said the project is necessary to meet consumer demand.Environmentalists and officials opposed to the project have expressed concern about TC Energy’s safety record. Its Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline exploded in Strasburg, Virginia, in July and its existing Keystone pipeline spilled nearly 600,000 gallons of bitumen oil in Kansas last December.The 1,377-mile (2,216-kilometer) pipeline runs from the Canadian border through a corner of Idaho and into Washington state and Oregon, connecting with a pipeline going into California.While Idaho’s Republican governor and congress members said that imposing other states’ climate policies would be “misguided,” Democratic officials in the other states called on federal officials to reject the plan. After the vote, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, condemned the decision.The project is “incompatible with our climate laws,” said a letter to the agency by Democratic U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of Washington.“GTN Xpress represents a significant expansion of methane gas infrastructure at a time when California, Oregon, and Washington are moving away from fossil fuels,” the senators said.The attorneys general of the three states, citing the commission's draft environmental impact statement for the project, said it would result in more than 3.47 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year for at least the next three decades. The agency’s final environmental assessment revised that number downward by roughly half in calculations contested by environmental groups.The agency’s chairman, Willie Phillips, reiterated its stance after Thursday’s vote.“There was no evidence presented that this project would significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions,” he told reporters. “The commission determined that this project was needed and therefore we support its approval.”In its final environmental impact statement for the project issued last November, the federal agency said the compressor stations were in non-forested areas with low to moderate fire hazard. It concluded the project “would result in limited adverse impacts on the environment.”“Most adverse environmental impacts would be temporary or short-term,” the federal agency said. The agency recommended certain steps, such as requiring the company to train its personnel and contractors on environmental mitigation measures before any construction begins. But environmental groups say the assessment didn’t adequately address the harm caused by the project, including by fracking to obtain the natural gas that flows through the pipeline. Fracking is a technique used by the energy industry to extract oil and gas from rock by injecting high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals. It has been criticized by climate and environment groups for increasing emissions of methane, an extraordinarily potent greenhouse gas. ___Claire Rush is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.。    从颠簸的自然路，到平坦的柏油路；从依靠人力、畜力出行，到新能源汽车的高歌猛进，新中国成立75年来，抚顺的城市交通发生了翻天覆地的变化，而不断迭代升级的交通工具就像一个城市的记录者，它丈量着不断拓展的城区，扩大了人们生活的半径，更见证了抚顺这座城市75年间的蜕变与成长。         　　1949年，新中国成立的曙光洒向这片大地，抚顺作为重要的工业城市，肩负着祖国工业生产的重任，从废墟中倔强崛起，开启了工业化的壮丽征程。煤炭、电力、石油、有色金属、特殊钢、机械等重点行业如繁星闪耀，工人的数量也如潮水般与日俱增。那时，人们大多依靠步行出行，厂矿工人上下班都需耗费大量时间。为了解决这一难题，众多厂矿在厂院附近建设起了生活区和职工宿舍。宿舍区内配备了小学、卫生所、理发店、合作社等设施，极大地方便了市民生活，也为抚顺创造新中国众多工业“第一”提供了有力支撑。

二 |          　　进入80年代，改革开放的春风吹拂着抚顺。工业发展由计划经济迈向社会主义市场经济，进入了快速发展的新时期，人们的生活水平开始渐渐提高。         　　那时，自行车就和现在的私家车一样，几乎成了每个家庭必备的出行工具，尤其是功能型自行车，更是当时人们生活品质的有力代言。         　　随着2000年新世纪的钟声敲响，自行车已渐渐无法满足人们快节奏的出行需求，汽车逐渐取代自行车，成为市民更便捷快速的出行工具。         　　步入21世纪，我市的道路交通以及汽车普及程度都取得了迅猛发展，不仅打破了地域限制，还推动了人员和物资的高效流转，促使抚顺与周边城市的贸易往来愈发频繁，让各种机遇与可能在更大的范围内交织碰撞，为全市商业企业的发展提供了重要的基础设施支撑和市场助力，有力地促进了抚顺经济的前行。         　　今年是实施十四五规划的关键一年，也是辽宁全面振兴新突破三年行动攻坚之年。目前，全市的普通公路总里程已经达到了6700公里，形成了由高速公路和铁路为主骨架，国省干线公路为主通道，农村公路为支线的交通网络体系。其中，辽宁中部环线已经全线贯通，与沈丹、沈大、沈四等7条高速公路实现了无缝衔接。“四好农村路”更是打造了农村公路+旅游、+体育、+文化的精品示范路线，把工业、农业、旅游等全部串联起来，实现共创共赢，联合发展。正在建设的沈白高铁更是让抚顺的交通格局实现了质的飞跃。通车后，抚顺北站将成为一体化的综合交通枢纽。交通的繁荣，交通工具的更新迭代，为这座城市带来了前所未有的发展机遇。         　　路通城邑千家市，八方通途万业兴。如今的抚顺，交通便捷，道路纵横交错，城镇居民户均一车已渐成常态，人们的生活半径也已不再局限在小小的一方天地里。在这交通发展的激昂交响曲中，抚顺正奋勇前行，让我们紧跟时代步伐，在交通强国的宏伟蓝图下，以更加昂扬的斗志、更加坚定的信念，推动抚顺交通事业迈向新的高峰，为实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦贡献抚顺的坚实力量。                    责任编辑：李丹。

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