Power strip: SCOTUS’s environmental ruling
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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America’s Supreme Court has essentially shorn the Environmental Protection Agency of its agency in making national policy. We ask what that means for the climate-change fight. Hong Kong is marking 25 years since its handover from Britain to China; the promised “one country, two systems” approach is all but gone already. And why moustaches are back in Iraq.
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| 0:59.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. In London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:04.3 | And in New York, I'm John Fasten. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events, |
| 1:10.6 | shaping your world. |
| 1:12.9 | There's not much left of Hong Kong's democracy. |
| 1:16.0 | On the anniversary of the city's handover to China, we look at the techniques the mainland |
| 1:20.1 | government has used to throttle dissent and why the rest of the world should be on the lookout |
| 1:24.3 | for them. |
| 1:26.9 | And in much of the West, mustaches have been rather in decline since the days of Tom Selleck and Bert Reynolds. |
| 1:33.5 | But in Iraq, they've long been a symbol of authority and machismo. |
| 1:38.1 | And they're making a comeback. |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah. First up, though, though, It's been a busy end of term for America's Supreme Court, which in the space of a week |
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