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Decades of federal housing discrimination known as redlining accounts for the fact that 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air today, according to a study released Wednesday.
Previewing a suite of new fossil-fuel rules, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan said more needs to be done to clean up the air, land and water around power plants.
"Australia is getting hard to live in," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said as severe flooding killed at least 20 people and officials warned of more flooding to come.
"We are going to be eating the rainforest in our burgers. This is our moment as Americans to step forward and leverage some pressure to save the world," one scientist said.
The plan, to be discussed by leaders in Paris this week, is a dramatic shift for a bloc that remains heavily reliant on relatively cheap and abundant Russian energy.
A shareholder advocacy group is renewing a bid to remove the chairman and another director at the nation's second-largest oil company for not doing more to curb carbon emissions.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposes curbing nitrogen oxide and carbon pollution amid an online shopping boom, but some environmentalists call for stricter limits.
