US Politics in Trump era
Publisher: The Intercept
Author: Kate Aronoff
25 Oct 2017
Democrats Are Letting the Climate Crisis Go To Waste
What should be a sparkling opportunity to push forward an ambitious agenda on climate — to condemn Republicans for not just ignoring but fueling a crisis with increasingly human and economic consequences — is going quite literally up in smoke. Even the most dogged climate champions in Congress are doing something Republicans would never dream of: letting a crisis go to waste.