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UCLA
Professor of environmental law at UCLA; former director of the National Resources Defense Council's China environmental law project in Beijing
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Alex Wang
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FROM Alex Wang
Which Way, L.A.?
An LA Climate Conference with China The US and China are the biggest polluters on Earth, and presidents of both countries want every nation on earth to sign an accord to fight greenhouse gases. The first session of the US-China Climate-Smart/Low Carbon Cities Summit began today in Los Angeles. LA is one of 10 American cities joining 10 cities in China to promise action against greenhouse emissions.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
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Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
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Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.