No climate change questions in debates

Published October 20, 2016 3:37am ET



Climate change went ignored in all three presidential debates between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, frustrating environmentalists.

Hillary Clinton briefly mentioned climate change during Wednesday’s final debate in Las Vegas, but neither candidate ever expounded upon the issue. Trump and Clinton didn’t face a single question devoted to climate change during any of the debates and it never made headlines aside from Clinton confronting Trump during the first debate about his past statements on climate change being a hoax.

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