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  • How to Lower Us Living Standards

    California Gov. Jerry Brown has a vision: When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, he wants his fellow Californians to emulate North Koreans.

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  • California’s Energy Policies: the Poor are Hit Hardest

    In a recent column in the Orange County Register, demographer Joel Kotkin wrote, “California is a great state in which to be rich,” but he added that affluence in California “co-exists alongside unconscionable poverty.”

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  • Renewable Energy Mandates Same as a Tax on the Poor

    California has long been one of America’s most liberal states. But when it comes to energy costs and their effect on low-income residents, the Golden State’s climate change policies are decidedly illiberal.

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  • Nextera Won’t Drop Its Lawsuit Against Esther Wrightman

    Two years ago, I wrote a piece for NRO about a SLAPP suit (strategic lawsuit against public participation) that NextEra Energy, America’s biggest wind-energy producer, had filed against Esther Wrightman, an anti-wind-project activist from the tiny village (pop.: 120) of Kerwood, Ontario.

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  • The Poor Need More Energy: What Bp Knows and Pope Francis Doesn’t

    When it comes to energy supplies — and therefore carbon dioxide emissions and climate change — who are you going to believe? Pope Francis, or BP?

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  • The Corn Ethanol Boondoggle Continues — See the Epa’s Latest Rule

    Last Friday, the EPA decreed the amount of ethanol that retailers must blend into their gasoline. For 2015, it will be about 14 billion gallons.

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  • Corn Ethanol is Worse than Keystone

    For years, environmental activists have opposed the Keystone XL pipeline, claiming that development of Canada’s oil sands will be “game over for the climate.”

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  • The Clean Power Plan is No Climate Fix

    The Clean Power Plan is among the most controversial mandates ever attempted by the federal bureaucracy.

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  • The Environmentalists’ Civil War

    It’s a manifesto smackdown, a fight among the members of the green Left for the intellectual and moral high ground. It’s also a fight that reflects the growing schism within American environmentalism.

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  • Hillary’s Big Iowa Flip-flop

    Now that Hillary Clinton has launched her second bid for the White House, we will see even more scrutiny of her on everything from her time at State to the Clinton Foundation’s funders.

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