Last week William Lawrence, a Democrat, won a seat in the House of Representatives, flipping his Michigan district.

Lawrence is a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate activist group. But his campaign focused more on affordability and data centers than climate issues.

I spoke with him on Monday afternoon to talk about what might be possible in the new Congress, about how Democrats have avoided talk of climate change, and how his history as a climate activist might inform his work as a legislator.