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Environmental protection agency. today it proposed stricter new emissions standards for cars and trucks designed to force auto- makers to build and sell more electric cars. >> we're ushering in new advanced technologies that will not only increase and enhance performance but also reduce climate pollutants and health- based pollutants. >> reporter: in the united states, transportation is the single largest source of planet warming greenhouse gas emissions. e.p.a. claims the new clean car standards would avoid 2.2 billion tons of carbon emission from vehicles by 2050. but with the impacts of cli...

Tank, the atlantic council. this is exactly what we would expect to happen with the planet warming as rapidly as it is, so we know that more extreme weather events are going to occur more frequently, more simultaneously and be more intense than ever before. we have a warmer atmosphere that holds more moisture and these, this moisture is released in the form of heavy precipitation like rainfall or snow and usually you would have atmosphere currents moving these weather systems along but also with the planet warming you have jet streams that have gone awry and so these extreme weather events are...

Target reopens fitting rooms at all stores after closing to customers during pandemic By Kelly Hayes CDC director says fully vaccinated individuals can go without mask indoors in most places CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky discussed the agency's easing of indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to safely stop wearing masks inside in most places. MINNEAPOLIS - Target said it plans to reopen fitting rooms at all of its stores this week after more than a year of being closed to customers due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company said it began opening some of...

California to set fuel economy standards for the entire country. >> reporter: california lawmakers say the proposal gets pollution standards set by president obama in 2012, the biggest single us policy to reduce planet warming carbon dioxide emissions. senator feinstein saying i expect the administration's efforts like so many other bad ideas will be taken to court and overturns. forward and on the say they will cooperate with the justice department probe. they have been lobbying donald trump since the first week in office, some of them are changing their tune. shannon: they are calling him a ...

Planet warming, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, from power plants. the president obviously said he was going to withdraw the u.s. from the paris climate accord. the president himself also often mocks the science of climate change. that's all been in place, you know, since the beginning of the administration. what's new is in that time we've actually written a lot of stories that even though they're rolling back regulations and making all these policy moves they still haven't messed with the guts of climate science. we've written stories that despite all of this, sort of the federal agencie...