Kerry challenges oil industry to prove its promised tech rescue for climate-wrecking

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen — at scale, affordably and quickly — to stave off climate disaster. And Kerry says he has “serious questions” whether it can. Kerry's comments came in an interview with The Associated Press on one of the most cru