Bill Frist Wants to Take Politics Out of Climate Change

This environmental advocacy puts Mr. Frist at odds with much of his own party and even his younger self. At his retirement from the Senate in 2007, the League of Conservation Voters gave Mr. Frist a lifetime rating of 7 percent for his legislative environmental record, which included voting for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. “Things like the Arctic, I definitely would not have voted that way today,” Mr. Frist said.