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New Hampshire Students Press Candidates to Remember Poor People in Climate Change Policies
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Deval Patrick speaks at the NH Youth Climate and Clean Energy Town Hall.
NEW HAMPSHIRE—Students at a youth climate town hall extracted promises from several presidential candidates that their climate-change policies will benefit low-income people, not hurt them.
“Equity has to be at the heart of climate policy,” said Pete Buttigieg, who appeared at the NH Youth Climate and Clean Energy Town Hall Wednesday morning, hours after partial returns showed him in first place in Iowa’s Democratic caucuses. The former mayor of South Bend, IN was responding to Dartmouth College MBA student Melina Sanchez Montanes, who asked what he would do to make sure low-income households “don’t bear the brunt of the transition” to cleaner energy.
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In the Loop | February 6, 2020 2:55pm
New Hampshire Students Press Candidates to Remember Poor People in Climate Change Policies