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The UK will join a string of European countries in leaving a controversial energy treaty that has allowed fossil fuel giants to sue governments over their climate policies, the government said on Thursday. To do that, it allowed energy companies many of them using coal and other fossil fuels to sue governments over policies putting their investments at risk.