Chicago latest US city to unveil comprehensive climate plan

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Plan hailed as "one of the most aggressive moves from a city"

Chicago has announced a climate change action plan designed to reduce the city's carbon emissions to three quarters of 1990 levels by 2020. The goal, which goes well beyond the requirements of the...

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