Court of appeals for the district of columbia's circuit unwinds trump's cancellation of obama's clean power plan on his last day in office. New administration decided not to revive it because emissions targets under that plan had already been met, even though it never went into effect. This is at the heart of a wider dispute about the current approach to regulation in america and something called the chevron deference doctrine.
America’s Supreme Court has essentially shorn the Environmental Protection Agency of its agency in making national policy. We ask what that means for the climate-change fight. Hong Kong is marking 25 years since its handover from Britain to China; the promised “one country, two systems” approach is all but gone already. And why moustaches are back in Iraq.
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