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Trump axes US power to regulate climate change

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Washington | The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for US action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, in the most aggressive move by the president to roll back global warming regulations.

The rule finalised by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as “the endangerment finding” that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare.

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