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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “How they over-promise on the benefits of extractive projects, and then they under-estimate or completely neglect harm to…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2023
How they over-promise on the benefits of extractive projects, and then they under-estimate or completely neglect harm to local communities.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez highlights the misleading nature of studies on fossil fuel projects.

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