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I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories.

It's Friday, February 13th.

In a week of climate change being dismissed by the federal government, we start today with one local repercussion.

Washington state's push for a rapid switch to electric vehicles is now in jeopardy, with its ultimate fate likely to be decided in the courts.

President Trump on Thursday erased the U.S. government's ability to fight climate-changing pollution.

It is now official U.S. policy that climate change does not endanger human welfare.

So local efforts now face more of an uphill battle to help preserve a livable climate.

Senna Canucin is a law professor at the University of Washington.

Well, it's radical.

You know, it's a big move that would have major implications for how this country addresses greenhouse gas emissions.

And it would mean that states become a much more important part of the picture.

Canoeson says the federal action will not derail Washington state's cap on pollution from big industrial emitters.

State Attorney General Nick Brown says the action is illegal and will be challenged.

In another top story today, a King County man is facing five to seven years in prison for attacking a transgender woman in Seattle last March.

Amy Radle has more.

Andre Carlo was part of a group who punched, kicked, and shouted anti-trans slurs at Andy Holsipple, a transgender woman in Seattle's University District.

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