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Climate Journalist on EPA's Actions Under Trump and Their Impact - Amanpour and Company PBS
This week, a wildfire the size of Paris ripped through Southern France, temperatures soared in Spain and an extraordinary U.N. meeting aimed at reining in the global production of plastic took place in Geneva. But across the ocean in the United States, Trump's MAGA movement is rolling back plans to mitigate climate change.
The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to repeal the so-called "endangered finding," showing that fossil fuel emissions endanger human health -- calling it possibly the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. David Wallace-Wells, an opinion writer for The New York Times, wrote the book "The Uninhabitable Earth." The author spoke to Christiane from New York. - Originally aired on August 8, 2025.