Republicans are having discussions in the halls of Congress this summer about climate change that would have been unthinkable five years ago, said Karly Matthews, spokesperson for the American Conservation Coalition Action. Like: harnessing nuclear energy to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and updating forest management strategies to help prevent wildfires.

 

She attributed that shift to Republicans seeing the effects of climate change in the places that they represent, like droughts suffocating the farms of Iowa and floods drowning the coasts of Louisiana.

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