US businesses push against Trump's attempts to dismiss climate change

Environmentally friendly groups at Companies vs Climate Change said they will work to make sure Trump won't undo all the progress the country has made

From his claim that global warming was a gigantic hoax masterminded by China to his promise to pull the United States out of the landmark Paris agreement, Donald Trump's surprise election win was widely decried by those who feared that recent progress in tackling climate change was about to come undone.

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