Obama funds dirty energy projects around the world | The daily briefing

Communities feel effects of US-funded developments; abortion activists challenge state laws; senators seek declassification of files on Russia and electionThrough the US Export-Import Bank, Barack Obama’s administration has spent nearly $34bn supporting 70 fossil fuel projects around the world, work by Columbia Journalism School and the Guardian has revealed. Guardian reporters have spent time at American-backed projects in India, South Africa and Australia to document the sickness, upheav