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Writing in July, three U. In fact, the group has just one tribal member, the Ute Indian Tribe. As protests rocked the United States after the police killing of George Floyd, a government relations firm whose clients include oil and gas companies told news media that the mayor of San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Some of the most contentious debates involve natural gas. The fuel is less polluting than coal, but an international team of scientists reported last year that planet-warming emissions from gas are rising faster than coal emissions are falling.

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A recent study in the peer-reviewed journal AGU Advances found that replacing coal with gas might do little good for the climate. Gas companies say their product is cleaner than coal and will only get cleaner as they blend renewable fuels into their pipelines. Gas also benefits here families by keeping energy prices low, supporters say. In recent months, California officials have faced criticism from some lawmakers and Black and Latino groups who say the state has focused too much on reducing pollution and not enough on the economic impacts of climate policies.

They want a roof over their head.

They want a safe neighborhood to live in. Natural gas advocates also say eliminating the fuel would require people to give up their gas stoves.

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Sempra subsidiary Southern California Gas Co. Fossil fuel companies are ignoring the ways communities of color and low-income families are disproportionately harmed by polluted air and water, deadlier heat waves, more punishing droughts and other consequences of burning coal, oil and gas, said Leah Stokes, a UC Santa Barbara political scientist who recently wrote a book about Alternqtive industry lobbying. The national uprising over racial justice and the COVID pandemic have shone a spotlight on those injustices.]