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its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhousegas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhousegas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.
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This allows the world’s largest greenhousegas emitter China and third largest India to continue chain-smoking coal to power their industrial machines. only recently relinquished its infamous distinction as the leading greenhousegas producer to China in 2005. On a per capita basis, we in the U.S. BOGA attacks the source.
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