Climate change and the vice presidential debate 

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Climate change got an unusually large chunk of time in last night’s vice presidential debate. Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence touched on conservation, the Paris Climate Agreement and green jobs. But by far the dominant theme: fracking. Host Marco Werman gets a debrief from environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler.

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