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During Wednesday’s CNN Climate Town Hall, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) expressed support for a carbon tax. Warren responded to a question on whether she would support a carbon tax by stating, “I think of this as what

During Wednesday’s CNN Climate Town Hall, 2020 presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stated that he would support a carbon tax. Moderator Anderson Cooper asked, “Would you support a carbon tax, some other candidates say they would?” Biden answered,

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) promised on Wednesday to ban hydraulic fracking outright if elected president in 2020. 

During Wednesday’s CNN Climate Town Hall, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) stated that we should ban plastic straws and have incentives to ban single-use plastic. Moderator Erin Burnett asked Harris if she would ban single-use plastic. Harris responded,

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) –  an outspoken proponent of the Green New Deal – tweeted footage of the destruction caused by Hurricane Dorian and warned that it is exactly “what climate change looks like.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday called on others in the Democrat presidential field to support a “full fracking ban” on both public and private lands.

During Wednesday’s CNN Climate Town Hall, moderator Wolf Blitzer stated that climate change is “an issue many voters say needs aggressive action, and scientists say that action needs to happen now. We’re seeing firsthand the effects of climate change as

Concern over the environment is one issue that a lot of young voters — whether they identify as Democrat or Republican — are increasingly having in common with one another. A new survey reveals a surge in young Republicans worried about man-made environmental issues, with 67 percent of Republicans 18-34 say they “worry about the damage humans cause the planet.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled her comprehensive climate change plan – inspired by Gov. Jay Inslee (D) – ahead of CNN’s seven-hour climate change town hall slated to take place Wednesday evening.

Andrew Yang told CNN to reschedule its climate change town hall with Democrat presidential candidates so it can report on Hurricane Dorian.

British actress and climate activist Emma Thompson penned an op-ed for CNN on Tuesday demanding greater urgency from world governments and their leaders to address the “climate emergency we have created.”

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes in Townhall that, rather than celebrating our current prosperity and booming economy, the left is proposing to destroy it by instituting a “Green New Deal.”

Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) revealed a $3 trillion plan to combat climate change and called for the creation of a United States “Environmental Justice Fund.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is using Hurricane Dorian – the monster storm that pummeled the Bahamas and is now creeping toward the U.S. mainland – to push his $16 trillion Green New Deal proposal.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) does not believe that skeptics of the progressive wing’s stance on climate change should serve in Congress, he tweeted Sunday.

Human beings have caused “a climate emergency that gravely threatens nature and life itself,” Pope Francis said Sunday before urging “drastic measures” to fight global warming.

The Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment claimed on Friday that the trade war between the U.S. and China is making it difficult for the latter to hit carbon emissions targets, even though Chinese researchers claimed just two weeks ago they were well ahead of schedule on meeting their emissions goals.

The U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned Friday that climate change will cause serious “harm to Human Rights” as well as producing “powerful conflicts” among peoples.

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who is the face of the youth climate change movement, took part in a protest on Friday but did not speak.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) signaled that he is open to the possibility of a “meat tax” to help combat climate change, according to a video of a Q&A session at his town hall event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Thursday.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded Thursday to an unofficial “GOP attack ad” highlighting her “shallow thoughts” on climate change. She said she loved it, adding Republicans “underestimate” her intelligence simply because she “talk[s] about policy in plain English instead of DC jargon.”

California Public Utilities Commission has pushed to eliminate natural gas appliances as part of Democrats’ initiative to reduce carbon emissions. This could impoverish already struggling Californians by raising the cost of housing by thousands of dollars.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in the U.S. on Wednesday after a solar-powered sailing trip from England to attend a U.N. summit.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) returned to social media Tuesday evening to talk about climate change, revealing she wants to have “one less child” due to her climate concerns.

Democrat candidate Andrew Yang released a climate plan that incudes “space mirrors” to deflect the sun and moving Americans to higher ground.

While speaking Monday at a town hall in Charleston, S.C., 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke blamed Americans for the “one of the greatest droughts” ever recorded in Guatemala. The former Texas congressman also told people at the

Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke (D), still struggling to crack three percent in most polls, took a break from the campaign trail to grill some burgers, according to a video posted Friday.

Asked about the missed meeting, Trump replied to reporters, “I want clean air and clean water.”

All this week, the mainstream media have been trying to scare you with heartrending tales of burning Amazonia — a conflagration the like of which we have never seen before. Supposedly…

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told NPR that the most important issue Congress needs to address is climate change.

Pope Francis invoked prayers for fire-fighting efforts in the Brazilian Amazon Sunday, saying the region is “vital” for the future of the earth.

Professor Michael Mann — the litigious climatologist who invented the discredited “Hockey Stick” chart and was implicated heavily in the Climategate scandal — has lost a long-running lawsuit against Canadian climate sceptic Dr Tim Ball.

An audience member heckled former vice president Joe Biden during a campaign stop in Keene, New Hampshire, Saturday for telling the crowd that he has “no middle ground” on climate change, blurring the line between Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) radical climate change position and his own.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Dean Phillips (D-MN) stated that “it’s special interests who seem to always get in the way” of legislation on topics like climate or guns. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, I’m Dean Phillips, and I’m joining

Jimmy Carter advised Americans in 1977 to set their thermostats to 55 degrees overnight during the winter months to “waste less energy.”

The DNC’s decision not to hold a Democrat presidential debate focused solely on climate change triggered protests by youth activists.