Climate change matters for Democratic voters: A Monmouth University poll last month showed the issue as the second most important to Iowa caucus-goers after health care
found that 82 percent of Democratic respondents said it’s “very important” that their party’s nominee for president supports taking “aggressive action” to slow the effects of climate change, the highest support among several items on the progressive wish list. Most of the candidates seem convinced it’s a key weakness for Trump, and the front-runners have all embraced the issue. The question is not whether the candidates are going to talk about global warming, but how.
In part, this is because climate has made such strong incursions into national politics outside the race. Last November, young people staged a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s office demanding a "Green New Deal"—turning a policy proposal into a national touchstone when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined in.
The second is what’s become known as “Keep It in the Ground”—a specific promise to stop new permits for drilling and mining on federal ground, and to apply a climate test to all new proposed infrastructure. A version was first introduced as a bill in the Senate by Sanders and Sen. Jeff Merkley in 2015,
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