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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dharna Noor

Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: ‘We won’t become numb’

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Gina McCarthy speaks in Washington DC on 1 April 2022. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

Ahead of next month’s major United Nations climate talks in Brazil, Gina McCarthy, the former Environmental Protection Agency head, said US cities and states were keeping the climate fight alive despite an all-out assault from the Trump administration.

“We will not allow our country to become numb or debilitated by those who are standing in the way of progress,” she said on a press call early on Thursday.

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