Most 2020 Democrats don’t have a climate change plan. Jay Inslee has 2.

Jay Inslee.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is most certainly the "climate candidate."

The Democrat launched his 2020 bid on the premise that he would make fighting climate change his No. 1 priority, and followed it up with his 100 percent clean energy plan not long after. Pretty much every other presidential candidate has yet to introduce a climate proposal of their own, and yet on Thursday, Inslee rolled out a second phase of his plan calling for a $9 trillion green revamp of the American economy.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.