Ewire: Schumer sets climate action as price for infrastructure bill

The Senate's top Democrat is setting the price that President Donald Trump must pay in order to secure Democratic votes for a major infrastructure bill -- a suite of measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and adapting to climate change-related damages. In an op-ed in the Washington Post , Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) outlines several clean power, adaptation and land conservation provisions, adding that “it is an important and necessary first step to include at least some, if...