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Trump delivers a deadly blow to EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration delivered a deadly blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules that revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution. First issued in 2009, the endangerment finding determined that six greenhouse gases could be categorized as dangerous to human health under the

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A recently discovered photograph may be the only one depicting 19th century astronomer Richard Carrington.

He witnessed the sun’s power ‘like nobody else before or since.’ Now his first portrait has been found

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When solar storms erupt from the sun and reach Earth, their intensity is measured against a historical benchmark: the Carrington Event. Now, a portrait of 19th century British solar astronomer Richard Carrington has been discovered — providing, at long last, an image of the man for whom the event

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