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Martha Durr poses for a portrait at her house in Lincoln, Nebraska. Earlier this month, she stepped away as the state's principal communicator of climate information. "It gets draining over time," she said. "Part of me thought 'I'm saying the same message, and things aren't happening at the rate they should be.'"

217 Today: Midwest weather experts want to talk about climate change, but they face pushback

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