"Climate Change Treated as Afterthought in Second Presidential Debate"

"Following the devastation from Hurricane Matthew and a campaign urging moderators to ask a climate question, the issue was again ignored."

"Hillary Clinton affirmed her commitment to fighting climate change, while Donald Trump pledged to take advantage of what he called 'clean coal' stores that will last a thousand years, in response to a question on energy policy in Sunday night's presidential debate.

Climate change was treated as an afterthought, despite a campaign by environmental activists urging moderators to press the candidates on the issue—especially on a weekend that saw the southeast U.S. coast battered, and Haiti devastated, by the extreme weather conditions from Hurricane Matthew.

The debate focused on topics that drove much of the presidential campaign coverage over the weekend, in particular the revelation of a video in which Trump made lewd and aggressive comments about women."

Marianne Lavelle reports for InsideClimate News October 10, 2016.

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