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The Troublemaker looks at the week’s news

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Biden has consistently backed fracking, although he now claims he wants to see it banned on federal land.

Climate campaigners were celebrating after the Tories announced an immediate halt to fracking in England on Saturday.

Energy giant Cuadrilla has caused the biggest fracking-induced earthquake in Britain to date

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reiterated his call for an end to fracking when he visited Lancashire’s Preston New Road anti-fracking protest camp on Tuesday.

Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists across Britain continued their campaigning last weekend.

Anti-fracking campaigners see the removal of fracking equipment from a site in Lancashire as a significant step forward.

A renewed wave of rebellion is taking place worldwide to take on the threat of catastrophic climate change

Bosses’ claims that fracking is safe have been rumbled by activists and small earthquakes, says Sarah Bates

After three jailed protesters were released on appeal, they urged everyone to be part of the fight against fracking and join a mass demonstration. 

Fracking has once again started in Britain, another sign of how the government and big business are endangering the environment.

Hundreds of anti-fracking campaigners marched on a prison in Preston, Lancashire, last Saturday to demand the release of three activists.

Energy Company Cuadrilla could score a key victory for the government if it succeeds in starting fracking at its site at Little Plumpton, near Blackpool, next month. The company’s activities were halted seven years ago when its fracking caused earth tremors in the area. Since then protestors have laid siege to the site, stopping trucks...

Preston Crown Court saw dramatic scenes as three anti-fracking activists were given lengthy jail sentences on Wednesday. 

A new report has uncovered how council bosses are investing workers’ money into dirty drilling. Sarah Bates looks at who’s funding the fossil fuel giants

Some Trade union leaders have said that Jeremy Corbyn should accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism with all of its examples (Socialist Worker, 15 August).

On the last day of parliament before their summer holidays, the government snuck out final approval for fracking to go ahead in Lancashire. Activists tell Sarah Bates they are determined to keep resisting

Over 100 anti-fracking campaigners from North Derbyshire and beyond gathered outside Chesterfield Assembly Rooms last week.

Workers at TGI Fridays delivered a letter to the business minister Greg Clark on Tuesday.

Over 200 campaigners gathered at the Jobs and Climate conference in central London last Saturday.