The power sector is just one source of greenhouse gas omissions. But there are others he can regulate, transport, building, et cetera. The problem here is that we have a very divided congress on the issue of climate change. It hasn't actually issued any major laws relating to climate change in decades. By bouncing this back to congress, in effect, what you're doing is your just further trenching this by partisan division and the impacts of the by partisan division s.
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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