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Ending Fracking and the Climate Emergency – SERA Fringe Event #Lab19

Ending Fracking and the Climate Emergency - SERA Fringe Event #Lab19

Join us for a SERA fringe event at the Labour Party Conference discussing “Ending #Fracking and the #Climate #Emergency “. SPEAKERS Chair – Tom Anderton – SERA Barry Gardiner MP – Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade & Minister for International Climate Change Andy Gheorghiu – Food & Water …

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‘More gutsiness, more passion’: The climate community on what Joe Biden needs to do to win their support

'More gutsiness, more passion': The climate community on what Joe Biden needs to do to win their support

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign got off to an inauspicious start but with decisive wins in recent primaries, he appears set to seize the Democratic nomination. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is still in the fight but the path to the nomination is increasingly narrow. Download the new Independent Premium app Sharing …

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Pro-fracking group is ‘wildly inflating’ job numbers, environmental campaigners claim

Pro-fracking group is 'wildly inflating' job numbers, environmental campaigners claim

A leading oil and natural gas trade group has “wildly inflated” the number of American jobs in fracking, in part by including gas station and convenience store workers in their counts, according to a new study. The American Petroleum Institute (API) has been accused of overstating fracking jobs in “a …

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