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US Climate Envoy Kerry Visits Mexico amid Energy Concerns

By KELIN DILLON In the midst of controversies surrounding Mexico’s energy sector, U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry visited the country on Wednesday, Feb. 9 to meet with Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to discuss the two nations’ heavily intertwined environmental policies and pursuits. Considering López Obrador’s pending initiative to give

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US Admonishes Mexico’s ‘Dirty’ Energy Reform, AMLO Bites Back

By KELIN DILLON If passed, the controversial proposal to reform Mexico’s energy sector and give its control to the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) could skyrocket the country’s carbon emissions to 65 percent, warned the U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday, Oct. 27. The constitutional changes proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) would see priority upload to

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