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Dear reader,

Today, we begin with an outrageous event unfolding in the US. Under President Donald Trump, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is claiming that greenhouse gases are not harmful to the planet and its inhabitants. The fact that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane trap heat in the atmosphere and cause global warming is the very foundation of the science and action around climate change.

Why is the EPA doing this?

The Trump administration wants to do away with the past government's 'endangerment finding'-according to...