The Huge Story 

Vice President Harris emphasised her help for oil and gasoline whereas limiting the give attention to local weather change on the controversy stage Tuesday night time.

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Whereas she’s nonetheless a extra climate-inclined candidate when in comparison with former President Trump,  she has projected a average place on the problem in TV appearances. 

The transfer may attraction to swing voters, however dangers alienating her base. 

Requested about local weather change, a part of Harris’s reply touted the manufacturing of pure gasoline, a fossil gasoline whose burning contributes to local weather change. 

“I’m proud that as vice chairman, over the past 4 years, we’ve got invested a trillion {dollars} in a clear power financial system, whereas we’ve got additionally elevated home gasoline manufacturing to historic ranges,” she mentioned. 

Requested about fracking, Harris additionally boasted about file oil manufacturing. 

“My place is that we’ve got bought to put money into numerous sources of power so we scale back our reliance on international oil,” Harris mentioned on Wednesday.

Trump has repeatedly invoked Harris’ previous opposition to fracking as polls present a decent race in Pennsylvania, the location of the Tuesday debate. 

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• Brazil’s Lula backs freeway via Amazon that may drive deforestation (Reuters)

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