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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Oliver Milman

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

New York City skyline with a carbon emissions graph
The US’s slow descent in planet-heating emissions is expected to worsen. Composite: Prina Shah for the Guardian/Getty

US vital statistics

Six years after Donald Trump allegedly wrote a suggestive birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, the current US president put his name to something that now seems almost as shocking: a letter calling for action on the climate crisis.

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