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To combat climate change, House GOP aims for 1 trillion trees

By Josh Siegel
Published January 24, 2020 5:00am ET
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To combat climate change, House GOP aims for 1 trillion trees
In this photo,taken Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, vibrant fall colors are shown at Mount Charleston Nevada, which is within the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area of the Humbolt-Toiyabe National Forest. | (AP Photo/Darin Bush)

House Republicans’ forthcoming agenda to tackle climate change includes a proposal to help plant a trillion trees to absorb carbon dioxide.

Republicans insist the plan is no joke and illustrative of the global scale of climate change — there are only 300 billion trees currently in the United States.

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