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The conventional wisdom says liquified natural gas is the future of energy — bridging the gap between the world abandoning fossil fuels and renewable supplies coming online. But that rosy outlook faces a reckoning. LNG is threatened by a pincer movement involving, ironically, the two old and new sources it’s supposed to bridge: coal and solar.

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European Union officials see new US demands for concessions as well as other measures as potentially undercutting a recent agreement that brought the allies back from the brink of a trade war.

L'Osservatore Romano

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