Unearthed paper exposes Dem House hopeful's 'insane' proposal for meeting climate goals

Manny Rutinel, Democratic candidate for Congress in Colorado’ 8th Congressional District, once co-authored a paper that argued that livestock — not fossil fuels — should be more of a focus to combat global warming.

"Simply put, achieving the Paris Agreement goals will be nearly impossible without ambitious policies that reform our food system," Rutinel wrote in a 2022 paper with the Environmental Law Institute.

"Despite the growing awareness of animal agriculture’s climate impact,...