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Fossil-fuel Pledge In EU-Trump Deal Sparks Climate Fears

The Trans Alaska Pipeline near Delta Junction, Alaska. The EU has promised to buy more US fossil fuels to secure a trade deal with President Donald Trump (Credit: AFP)

The EU is promising colossal new US fossil fuel purchases under its trade deal with President Donald Trump, raising concerns for the bloc's climate fight -- should the mammoth pledges come true.

As part of the framework agreed Sunday, the EU said its companies would buy $750 billion of liquefied natural gas, oil and nuclear fuels from the United States -- split equally over three years -- to replace Russian energy sources.

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