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Biden opening summit with ambitious new US climate pledge

by Ellen KnickmeyerChristina Larson
| April 22, 2021 3:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will open a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the U.S. pumps out, a commitment he hopes will spur China and other big polluters to speed up efforts of their own.

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