Meet a Republican mayor and convention delegate who takes climate change seriously

Grist
By Ben AdlerJul 20, 2016, 9:51 am84 pts
Jim Brainard, the six-term mayor of Carmel, Indiana, may seem like a typical Midwestern Republican, but he doesn’t govern like one. Carmel, a city of 86,000, is a suburb of Indianapolis. Over the course of his 21-year tenure, Brainard has made it steadily greener and more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly.…

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