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Amazon, other tech workers join Seattle climate rally

By Associated Press
Published: September 20, 2019, 9:32pm
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Amazon workers begin to gather in front of the Spheres, participating in the climate strike Friday in Seattle.
Amazon workers begin to gather in front of the Spheres, participating in the climate strike Friday in Seattle. (Photos by Elaine Thompson/Associated Press) Photo Gallery

SEATTLE — As they joined a massive climate march led by Seattle school students, hundreds of Amazon workers celebrated the company’s recent vow to cut its use of fossil fuels but said there’s more work to do.

“We will not take our eyes off Amazon’s carbon emissions,” software developer Weston Fribley told a crowd gathered outside Amazon’s Spheres.

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