WASHINGTON: US Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden was called out at a climate change forum on Wednesday for plans to attend a fundraiser hosted by the co-founder of a natural gas export firm, despite a pledge not to take fossil-fuel company money.
Goldman, who is listed among Western LNG's leadership on its website, did not immediately respond to a phone call and email seeking comment. Trump, who rejects climate science and has reversed Obama-era climate initiatives, blasted the proposals of Democratic challengers as they began showcasing them."The Democrats’ destructive 'environmental' proposals will raise your energy bill and prices at the pump," he said on Twitter.Other Democratic candidates were split on whether or how to ban fracking of natural gas and oil, which, environmentalists say, poses risks to air and water quality.
Julian Castro, the housing secretary under former President Barack Obama, said he would not immediately ban fracking but supported local governments that did. Concerns about climate have spiked as fires burn in the Arctic and Amazon, ice melts in Greenland and strong storms this year have flooded farms in Midwestern states.
His US$1.7-trillion plan supports carbon capture and sequestration, a technique to bury carbon and help utilities move to cleaner energy sources, but it has been criticized by rivals as offering a middle ground.Warren and Sanders embraced the Green New Deal, a Congressional resolution aimed at moving the country to 100 per cent renewable energy in a decade, and took shots at the fossil fuel industry for contributing to climate change.
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