One reason climate change is a loser at the ballot box — even when millions are spent to promote the issue — is that it’s an abstract issue without a single villain. But earlier this year, a group of 16 liberal state attorneys general devised a scheme that they thought could finally create one, and in the process boost their own political fortunes.

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