Booker in Iowa

Climate change is one the key issues for him, and it was one of the first questions he got from the audience in Clinton.

“We need to mobilize the nation. It’s not something where our economic well-being and dealing with climate change are in any way mutually exclusive. These are things that go hand in hand if we make investments in infrastructure in this region, whether it’s levees, resiliency, whether it’s incentivizing our farmers to do things like cover crops that pull carbon out of the air,” he told News 8.

Rejoining the Paris climate agreement would be part of this effort he said.