How Natural Disasters Can Change A Politician - WEIS | Local & Area News, Sports, & Weather
Miami Herald/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In September 2017, Hurricane Irma swept across the southern tip of Florida, swamping what was then the state’s 26th Congressional District. The following July, that district’s Republican representative, Carlos Curbelo, introduced a bill that would tax greenhouse-gas emissions to help reduce the impact of climate change on his hurricane-prone constituency. Curbelo’s