Greens’ Stein floats climate plan after Louisiana visit

Published August 23, 2016 9:28pm ET



Green Party nominee Jill Stein talked up her Green New Deal proposal to confront climate change on Tuesday, after visiting flood-ravaged Louisiana on Monday where she blamed the disaster on global warming.

Stein called the disaster in Baton Rouge an “instant replay” of what occurred during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, saying at the National Press Club in Washington that the flooding shows “unequal recovery” for minority communities.

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