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EU countries vote to weaken law on methane emissions

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European Union countries voted on Monday in favour of weakening the bloc’s planned law to cut methane emissions in the oil and gas sector, weeks after the EU pledged at the COP27 climate conference to do more to tackle the potent greenhouse gas.

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