Protesters crash US-led coal event at UN: ‘Shame on you’

Published December 10, 2018 1:22pm ET



Activists on Monday interrupted a Trump administration-led discussion about “clean” coal and nuclear power by chanting “keep it in the ground” and “shame on you” at a United Nations climate change conference in Poland.

Wells Griffith, President Trump’s international energy and climate adviser leading the event, smiled at the protesters and said it was an example of “how we can’t have an open and honest discussion about the realities” of fighting climate change.

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