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The United States notified the United Nations on Monday that it would leave the Paris climate agreement, starting the clock on a yearlong withdrawal process. 

Along with Toyota and Fiat Chrysler, the auto giant backed the administration in its clash with California over pollution standards.

Anxious about the future and angry about the failure to curb the crisis, millions joined an urgent call for action against climate change.

The move, expected Wednesday, would strip California of its special authority to set tougher rules on car emissions. 

Mr. Sanders’s climate change proposal calls for the United States to eliminate fossil fuel use by 2050. “We must be extraordinarily aggressive,” he said in an interview.

The project’s reversal of fortunes has angered environmentalists and focused attention on an unusual connection between a Chilean billionaire and President Trump’s family.