Climate advocates who backed Sinema exasperated by blocking of Biden bill

Arizona senator - who once led the state Green party - has refused to specify which parts of the $3.5tn budget bill she objects to

Wildfires, deadly heat, drought and flooding show how climate change has already arrived" in Arizona and action is desperately needed, according to climate and progressive advocates who helped elect Kyrsten Sinema to represent the state in the Senate.

Many of them are wondering why their senator seems to have turned her back" on her background in environmental politics and is now blocking Democrats' multitrillion-dollar legislation to address climate change.