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"Campaign 2020: Inside Biden's Network Of Climate Advisers" [1]

"Former Vice President Joe Biden had already assembled a task force of activists and liberal officials to rewrite his climate plan. But there was a problem: Organized labor hadn't been invited to the weekly Zoom calls.

Biden had tailored his presidential campaign to accommodate the unions that build and maintain natural gas projects, and unions had returned the favor by boosting Biden's candidacy during his lowest points in the Democratic primary.

They were unhappy about being shut out from drafting his new energy plan.

So the campaign quietly added a member to its climate task force: Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb, whose gas-heavy Pennsylvania district had voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Lamb had already distinguished himself as a defender of Biden's support for hydraulic fracturing."

Adam Aton reports for E&E News August 7, 2020. [2]

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Public [6]
Source: E&E News [2], 08/10/2020
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/campaign-2020-inside-bidens-network-climate-advisers [2] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063693773 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81