GOP Senate Victories Dampens Hopes For Climate Action
GOP Senate Victories Dampens Hopes For Climate Action

Republican electoral victories Tuesday cast doubt over whether the US would enact any significant measures to curb planet-heating emissions in the near-term.

States were still tallying results on Wednesday as the Trump administration officially withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.

According to HuffPost, that makes the US the only country to exit the nonbinding global pact to cut climate-changing carbon emissions.

In Montana and Texas, climate-change-denying candidates cruised to victory.