The Barely Recognizable J.D. Vance as Trump’s Vice Presidential Running Mate Inside Climate News staff writer Dan Gearino, who lives in Columbus, Ohio, wonders what happened to the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and “public intellectual” who once touted “a climate problem in our society.” Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
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