Elissa Slotkin has learned that climate change is both a national emergency and a political opportunity. How does that build consensus? The politics of climate change are changing fast, partly because global heat waves, fires in California and the Amazon, Midwestern floods and increasingly brutal storms keep focusing attention on its nasty consequences, and partly because the Green New Deal has thrust it to the center of the national conversation. Polls suggest climate change has emerged as one of the top two policy priorities for Democratic voters, rivaled only by health care. Corporate America is evolving. Dozens of big companies—including oil majors like BP and Shell—descended on Capitol Hill this spring to lobby for modest carbon taxes, responding to pressure from their shareholders and the public to support some kind of climate action. It is mainly playing out through the internal battle over the Green New Deal, which so far is more of a call for dramatic action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions than a specific legislative agenda, but has been effectively branded by conservative outlets like Fox News as a leftist crusade to ban meat and air travel. Democratic-controlled states like New York, California, Washington, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada and Maine have all passed sweeping bills requiring economywide climate neutrality by or earlier. Climate is going to be on the ballot, and Democrats just have to win. The question is whether the current politics of climate is making that more or less likely.
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Investor turned climate activist turned Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer sat down recently with the Los Angeles Times editorial board to discuss his candidacy, particularly his views on the economy, the political moment and climate change. Here is a transcript, lightly edited for clarity. This is an endorsement meeting, part of our decision-making process for figuring out who to endorse in advance of the California primary. Or we can jump right into questions. I am the only person, I believe, on either side of the aisle who will say that climate is my No. I believe we should do it from the standpoint of environmental justice. I believe we can use it to create millions of good paying union jobs across the country. Global problem, requires American leadership, requires American commitment on Day One. Inherited no money from my parents. Built a business. Walked away from it. Took the giving pledge. Divested from fossil fuels. But I also know a lot about what creates prosperity. And I believe whoever the Democrat is [who wins the nomination] is going to have to get on the stage and take Mr.
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Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer plans to invest at least as aggressively in the presidential election as he did last year, when he became the biggest individual donor on either side of American politics. Steyer sees the presidential election as his greatest opportunity yet to turn more Americans into climate change activists and to pressure candidates to present detailed plans to reach his target of getting 50 percent of U. NextGen ran ads attacking the Koch brothers in the midterm election season, but asked whether he would do so again, Steyer said he is now less interested in negativity and more concerned about telling a positive story about why people should care about climate change. Spending billions of dollars on climate-related aid in countries that need help with tuberculosis, malaria and malnutrition. In the run-up to the U. Climate Change Conference in Paris from Nov. It is terrible news. The morality is on your side? I always find it fascinating how leftists are constantly whining about how the Koch brothers try to influence politics with their money.
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I will be dedicating percent of my time, effort and resources to one cause: working for Mr. I am not running for president at this time. Trump resigns. By Alexander Burns. Trump before the election. He had made deliberate preparations in recent months to seek the White House, running television ads in the early primary states, recruiting potential staff members and even designating a campaign manager for a possible run. But Mr. Steyer began informing aides early this week that he would not be a candidate after all, after concluding that he could have a greater political impact through his impeachment activism, several advisers to Mr. Steyer said. Steyer said in prepared remarks, which were obtained by The New York Times. Alluding to Mr. He considered running for president in before ultimately endorsing Hillary Clinton. In some respects, the Democratic primary landscape appeared inviting for a candidate like Mr. Steyer, with his sterling credentials as a Trump antagonist and a virtually bottomless well of money to spend on advertising. Bloomberg , the former New York City mayor who is considering a presidential campaign of his own. Anticipating a likely race, Mr. Steyer had settled on a close adviser, Heather Hargreaves, to serve as his eventual campaign manager.
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Your privacy is important to us. We have updated our privacy policy to better explain how we use data on this site. Read it. By Sophie Austin on Tuesday, January 14th, at a. That position momey a policy floor in the Democratic presidential primary. Since then, Democrats say they want to rejoin nearly countries trying fakw keep global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. All six candidates headed to the debate stage on Jan. Former Vice President Joe Biden wants climate change to be a central focus of his foreign policy strategy. Biden also wants countries to make enforceable commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in global shipping and aviation.
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