Category: Politics & Policy

Wildfires are burning out of control in the western United States, cities are choking on toxic air, and Hurricane Laura battered the Gulf Coast on August 27. So why isn’t the threat of global warming dominating the election contest between President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden?

The 2020 election was always going to be an inflection point for U.S. climate change policy, but a pandemic and a bad economy suggest 2021 might not work out as the Democrats had planned…