Google unveils plan to save the world

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Eric Schmidt says the company will lobby government to adopt its wide-reaching strategy

Google has unveiled a $4 trillion plan detailing how it thinks the US should transition to a low carbon economy. The wide-reaching strategy sets out a series of proposals designed to wean the US's...

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