Las Vegas Review-Journal

Nevada one state targeted by environmen­tal factions in campaigns

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creasingly visible issue, whether it’s drought-stricken farmland in California, increased wildfires, or rising sea levels, environmen­tal advocates say.

The spending, from groups that include NextGen Climate and the League of Conservati­on Voters, is supporting Democratic presidenti­al nominee Hillary Clinton and Catherine Cortez Masto, the Democratic candidate for Nevada’s open U.S. Senate seat.

“We’re organized to try to promote voter-to-voter contact for millennial­s around energy and climate,” Tom Steyer, a businessma­n and president of NextGen Climate, said in an interview with the Review-Journal. “The idea is to engage millennial­s to get them to talk to each other about climate issues, clean energy issues

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