Fracking fight looms for Democrats [View all]

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Source: The Hill

Fracking and the environment are set to be one of the most contentious battlegrounds for allies of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as they seek to craft the Democratic Party’s platform for 2016.

Members of the platform committee will meet on Friday in Phoenix to hear testimony from several environmental organizations and activists.

Clinton and Sanders clashed bitterly over hydraulic fracturing and fossil fuel production during the campaign, and both have appointed officials to the platform committee who share their views. With Clinton now the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president, the Sanders camp is determined to win as many concessions in the platform is possible.
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Anthony Rogers-Wright, a policy and organizing director at Environmental Action, noted that Democrats need the support of Sanders voters in the general election, as well as minority voters who view climate change as a major issue.

“Sen. Sanders was very deliberate in picking very strong voices and personalities to be on that committee, to make sure that not only it is influenced but also that it is pushed to get a progressive agenda,” said Rogers-Wright, who is testifying before the committee on Friday.

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