Congress is divided over climate policy. Sean Casten thinks he can build a bridge between them.

Casten is a 46-year-old clean-energy businessman and scientist who defeated Rep. Peter Roskam, the six-term Republican incumbent of Illinois’s 6th Congressional District, covering the well-educated, affluent suburbs west of Chicago that Hillary Clinton won by seven points in 2016.

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