Climate Changed
Democratic Green New Deal Defectors Chart Their Own Climate Path
- Carbon tax, renewable energy mandates eyed as alternatives
- They will offer ‘tangible, achievable things,’ lawmaker says
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces the Green New Deal in February.
Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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As the founder of a company that turns industrial emissions into energy, Sean Casten turned a career spent fighting climate change into the centerpiece of his successful campaign for Congress.
But don’t expect the first-year House Democrat -- who defeated a six-term Republican incumbent in Illinois -- to back the ambitious climate plan championed by progressives such as New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.