Katrine brag is our environment editor, these are regulations that would encourage the entire power generation system to shift away from dirty, fossil fules. The power sector in america is responsible for 25 % of greenhouse gas omissions. And so if president byden is going to be hitting his climate targets, and in particular, he has promised to cut greenhouse gas amissions nation wide by 50 to 52%.
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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