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Climate change will be one of the top agenda items this week as world leaders gather in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly. Tens of thousands of people rallied through the city yesterday ahead of the event. Many of them called on President Biden to move away from fossil fuels.
Thousands of activists, indigenous groups, students and others take to the streets of New York for the March to End Fossil Fuels protest on Sunday, Sept. 17, in New York.
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- U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres will host a new event, the Climate Ambition Summit, this week. He asked countries to come with credible commitments to get on track to slash greenhouse gas emissions. NPR’s Rachel Waldholz tells Up First that we’ve already “locked in” on a certain amount of warming, but we need to cut global emissions to zero to avoid things getting worse, and we’re not currently on track to reach those targets.
- Meanwhile, on the West Coast, the state of California filed a lawsuit against oil giants including Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP. The suit claims the companies misled the public about climate change and the dangers of fossil fuels.
- Climate change is a top issue for young voters but lags behind other issues, according to polls. Here’s why environmental activists think this is changing.
The auto workers’ strike enters its fourth day today. Three manufacturing plants have shut down in Missouri, Ohio and Michigan in the first-ever strike against Ford, General Motors and…
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