Climate Change Activists Come Up Short In Midterm Elections

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Tom Steyer, the hedge-fund billionaire, spent tens of millions of dollars in the midterms, mostly in seven senate and gubernatorial races. Most of his candidates lost, as will — presumably —one of his Steyer's key ambitions: major action on climate change.