Disaster insurance, datacenters, right to repair: meet the midterm candidates running on green policies

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Some of the everyday struggles animating voters have a climate link lurking in the backgroundWhen Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a law erasing the words “climate change” from state statutes in May 2024 – colloquially known as the “don’t say climate change” law – Democrats were outraged. Just six months later, many liberal politicians began to go quiet on the issue themselves. After Donald Trump won the 2024 election, mentions of the climate crisis started to disappear from Democrats’ rheto