Booker, Gillibrand in Iowa

“We are in a crisis in our planet,” Booker said. “The next president can’t make climate change an issue, they have to make it the center of all policy — everything we do: Department of Transportation, have got to be about the environment, or ag-laws and the ag-bill have to incentivize farmers to cover costs, our foreign policy — rejoining the Paris climate accord.”
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When asked what she would do to alleviate the economic struggle farmers are facing in the wake of tariffs and flooding, Gillibrand said floods that are supposed to be hundred-year floods are every-year floods now.

“First, we need to address global climate change directly and aggressively — I would pass the Green New Deal and I would put a price on carbon,” Gillibrand said.