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French President Gives US Climate Scientists Millions

French President Emmanuel Macron is making good on his plans to turn France into a "second homeland" for American climate scientists who feel unappreciated and underfunded in Donald Trump's America, the Washington Post reports. 

Six months after Trump announced that the United States would be withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, a decision Macron at the time called "a mistake for the future of his country and his people and a mistake for the future of the planet,” France has announced the winners of the country's first "Make Our Planet Great Again" competition. The 18 scientists, 13 of whom work in the United States, will receive research grants of up to five years.

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