U.S. funding denied for huge natural gas project

Friday, August 29, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The Export-Import Bank of the United States, after heavy lobbying from environmental groups, denied funding Thursday for a large natural gas development project in Peru backed by two Texas-based energy companies with close ties to the Bush administration.

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