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2020 Democrats Aim High With Climate Change Proposals

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is centering his presidential campaign around combating climate change. On Friday he rolled out his plan to shift the country to carbon-free energy.
Emissions rise out of three large smokestacks at a coal-fired power plant in Castle Dale, Utah in 2017. Democratic presidential candidates are releasing plans to reduce U.S. emissions in order to head off the most dangerous consequences of global warming.

The past few presidential campaigns, environmental activists have "been left begging for there to be a single question at a campaign debate about climate change," longtime climate change activist and author Bill McKibben recently told NPR.

"This time around I'm not worried in the least. I think it's going to be one of the central topics in the primary," McKibben said, "and then I think whoever wins the Democratic nomination is going to try and ram the

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