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The Biden administration had sought to tighten limits on tailpipe emissions to encourage automakers to sell more nonpolluting electric vehicles. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Regulation , Automobiles

Simplified: Biden administration sought to tighten limits on tailpipe emissions to encourage automakers to sell more nonpolluting electric vehicles

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7 months ago
That goal has been seen as crucial to avoiding the worst effects of climate change. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Climate Change

Simplified: Goal has been seen as crucial to avoiding worst effects of climate change

1 sources

7 months ago
If the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke would kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Environment , United States

Simplified: Exposure to wildfire smoke would kill estimated 70000 Americans each year by 2050 if planet continues to warm at current rate

1 sources

7 months ago
Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nearly all nations agreed to try to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Regulation

Simplified: Nearly all nations agreed to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre...

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7 months ago
Restrictions on other pollutants from automobiles, such as nitrogen oxides and benzene, are still in place. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Regulation , Automobiles

Simplified: Restrictions on other pollutants from automobiles such as nitrogen oxides and benzene are still in place

2 sources

7 months ago
As the weather globally gets warmer and wetter, disease is spreading. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Environment

Simplified: Disease is spreading as weather globally gets warmer and wetter

2 sources

7 months ago
The United States is currently the world’s second-largest climate polluter (after China) but is the nation that has pumped the most greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , United States

Simplified: United States is world's second-largest climate polluter after China

1 sources

7 months ago
That is altering the Earth’s climate and intensifying heat waves, drought, hurricanes and floods while also melting glaciers, causing sea levels to rise. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Climate Change

Simplified: That is altering Earth's climate intensifying heat waves drought hurricanes floods melting glaciers causing sea levels to rise

4 sources

7 months ago
Transportation is the largest single source of greenhouse gases in the United States. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , United States

Simplified: Transportation is largest single source of greenhouse gases in United States

3 sources

7 months ago
California “will sue to challenge this illegal action” and will continue to regulate greenhouse gases, he said. 1.000

👤 Gov. Gavin Newsom 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Legal

Simplified: California will sue to challenge illegal action will continue to regulate greenhouse gases

2 sources

7 months ago
“If this reckless decision survives legal challenges, it will lead to more deadly wildfires, more extreme heat deaths, more climate-driven floods and droughts, and greater threats to communities natio... 1.000

👤 Gov. Gavin Newsom 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Environment

Simplified: Reckless decision will lead to more deadly wildfires extreme heat deaths climate-driven floods droughts greater threats to communities

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7 months ago
Greenhouse gases, however, collect in the atmosphere where they form a kind of blanket around the Earth, trapping heat from the sun. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Science , Environment

Simplified: Greenhouse gases collect in atmosphere form blanket around Earth trapping heat from sun

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7 months ago
“When we breathe, we emit CO2. 1.000

👤 Doug Burgum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Science , Environment

Simplified: When we breathe we emit CO2

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7 months ago
President Barack Obama wrote on social media that the repeal of the endangerment finding means, “We’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industr... 1.000

👤 President Barack Obama 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Politics , Environment

Simplified: Repeal of endangerment finding means we will be less safe less healthy less able to fight climate change

1 sources

7 months ago
“CO2 was never a pollutant,” he said. 1.000

👤 Doug Burgum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Science , Environment

Simplified: He said CO2 was never pollutant

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7 months ago
While carbon dioxide can help plants grow, the extraordinarily high levels in the atmosphere are overwhelming natural processes and increasing the frequency and severity of drought, heat waves and oth... 1.000

👤 Scientists 📋 News Article 🏷️ Science , Environment

Simplified: High levels of carbon dioxide in atmosphere are overwhelming natural processes increasing frequency severity of drought heat waves

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7 months ago
At issue is what’s known as the endangerment finding, a 2009 scientific conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to Americans’ health and welfare. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Science , Environment

Simplified: Endangerment finding is 2009 scientific conclusion greenhouse gas emissions pose danger to Americans' health welfare

4 sources

7 months ago
And it is a knockout punch in the yearslong fight by a small group of conservative activists as well as oil, gas and coal interests to stop the country from transitioning away from fossil fuels and to... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Environment , Energy

Simplified: It is knockout punch in fight to stop country from transitioning away from fossil fuels

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7 months ago
The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging heat waves, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Climate Change

Simplified: Action is key step removing limits carbon dioxide methane four other greenhouse gases

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7 months ago
We can surely find a way to develop our mining capabilities without compromising reasonable environmental standards. 0.850

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Mining

Simplified: We can find a way to develop mining capabilities without compromising reasonable environmental standards

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7 months ago