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    Media Touts ‘Clear Sign of Human-Caused Climate Change.’ Here Are the Facts.
    Associated Press reporter Seth Borenstein has made another attempt to convince the public of global warming, but his latest analysis has climate scientists once again refuting his claims. On Tuesday, Borenstein cited AP analysis that found hot temperature records in the U.S. were being broken twice as often as cold temperature records. He concluded that…
    Marc Morano
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    Ocasio-Cortez Blames Pipeline That Hasn’t Been Built Yet for an Oil Spill
    Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blamed the Keystone XL pipeline for leaking about 5,000 barrels of oil in rural South Dakota about two years ago. There’s just one problem: The Keystone XL pipeline has not been built yet. During a House hearing Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that “Keystone XL, in particular, had one leak that…
    Michael Bastasch
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    Congress Should Keep Its Promise to End Energy Subsidies
    As Americans work to file their taxes, Congress is setting to work on a package of expired tax credits this spring to enrich a few energy technologies at the expense of federal taxpayers. Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., of the Senate Finance Committee last week introduced a bill that would retroactively renew…
    Katie Tubb
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    ‘Terrible Idea’: Michigan’s Democratic Governor Pushes an Enormous Gas Tax Increase
    Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing what some opponents are calling a draconian gas tax increase to fix the state’s crumbling road infrastructure. Whitmer’s budget proposal will include a 45-cent gas tax increase, which would be phased in over three separate intervals, the governor’s spokeswoman Tiffany Brown told reporters Monday. The rate would begin increasing in October,…
    Chris White
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    New EPA Chief Implementing Trump’s Energy-Dominant, Environmentally Friendly Agenda
    Andrew Wheeler was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Wheeler previously served as deputy administrator before stepping into the role of acting administrator in July 2018. He visited the Conservative Political Action Conference last week and spoke to The Daily Signal. A lightly edited transcript is below. Rob…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Ocasio-Cortez on Climate Change: ‘Is It OK to Still Have Children?’
    Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posed a question to her supporters during a streaming conversation from her kitchen Sunday night: “Is it OK to still have children” because of global warming? There is a “[s]cientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult, and it does lead, I think, young…
    Michael Bastasch
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    Bernie Sanders Responds to SOTU: Trump Forgot to Mention Climate Change
    Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders accused President Donald Trump of omitting one “of the most important issues facing our country and the entire world” from the Tuesday State of the Union: climate change. The Vermont senator and self-proclaimed socialist delivered his own response to Trump’s address to the nation after failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams delivered the…
    Tim Pearce
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    We Hear You: Transgender Pronouns, School Discipline, the Russia Probe, and Climate Change
    Editor's note: Many readers admired the high school students who stood up for a teacher who was fired for declining to use male pronouns to refer to a transgender student who was born female. Those comments lead off this week's mailbag. Don't forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Bless the hearts…
    Ken McIntyre
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    America’s Christmas Gift to the World: More Energy Freedom
    Over the past few months, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been delivering an important message to our country’s allies: America’s energy renaissance is your gift, too. As Perry said at the beginning of the year, “The United States is not just exporting energy, we’re exporting freedom.” Now, he’s delivering that message in person. Perry has…
    Katie Tubb | Nicolas Loris
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    Electric Vehicle Tax Credits Another Form of Corporate Welfare
    If America’s auto manufacturers wrote letters to Santa, it’s not hard to guess what would be high on their lists: retaining the federal tax credit for electric vehicles. For several years now, Uncle Sam (who often acts like Santa’s U.S.-based cousin) has tried to encourage the public to buy electric vehicles by offering those who…
    Ed Feulner
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    Climate Change Alarmism Is the World’s Leading Cause of Hot Gas
    Even as anti-gas tax riots raged in France this week, naturalist David Attenborough warned a crowd at a United Nations climate change summit in Poland that “the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” U.N. General Assembly President Maria Espinosa told the media that “mankind”…
    David Harsanyi
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    In France and the US, a Tale of 2 Energy Policies
    When it comes to the energy and climate policies of the United States and France, there’s a clear fork in the road. If the past few weeks were any indication, families would rather take the path that avoids expensive, ineffective climate policies. The Trump EPA is leading America down that path marked by energy abundance…
    Kay C. James
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    Unplug Electric Vehicle Subsidies and Let Consumers Decide
    Frustrated with General Motors Co.’s recent announcement of plant closures and layoffs, President Donald Trump said the administration is now looking at cutting at subsidies to the automaker, including for electric vehicles. Good. Families should be empowered to purchase the car they want without nudging from Washington and the financial help of their fellow taxpayers….
    Nicolas Loris
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    4 Problems With the New Climate Change Report
    If you’re like me, you’re happy the White House released the latest version of the National Climate Assessment on Black Friday. Publishing the 1,700-page report the day after Thanksgiving saved me from unwanted dinner conversations about our planet’s impending climate doom. But if your aunt calls you up this week spouting claims of mass deaths,…
    Nicolas Loris
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    No ‘Green Wave’ as Voters Reject Ballot Measures on Climate Change in 3 States
    Not only did a Democratic “blue wave” fail to materialize on Tuesday night, the “green wave” of major global warming and energy-related ballot measures largely failed to get voter approval, as well. Voters in Arizona, Colorado, and Washington rejected measures aimed at fighting global warming, despite two of those states being in Democratic hands. The…
    Michael Bastasch
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    3 Residents Challenge Climate Change Rules at Delaware’s High Court
    Delaware regulators have imposed costly and unlawful climate change regulations on industry in violation of legislative directives, according to three citizen activists who took their case to the state’s highest court. But before the Delaware Supreme Court can address the substantive questions raised in the residents’ lawsuit, it first must resolve a lower court ruling…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Green Energy Mandates Could Double Your Electric Bills
    Business and homeowner utility costs could double in many states if environmental groups succeed in enacting draconian solar and wind power mandates in states across the country. Yet these mandates will have almost no impact in cleaning the air or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In Arizona and Nevada, voters will decide on Nov. 6 whether…
    Stephen Moore | Andy Vanderplas
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    UN’s Solution to Climate Change: End Capitalism
    What will it take to keep the planet habitable? According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism—the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering. The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report led Eric Holthaus, a Grist writer, to tweet enthusiastically, “The world’s top scientists just…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Denmark Wants to Ban Gas-Powered Cars, Even Hybrids
    Denmark is presenting a proposal to the country’s parliament later in October that would ban the sale of all gas-powered cars, including hybrids, by 2035, Reuters reports. Denmark’s government is presenting the plan as a way to curb vehicle pollution and combat climate change. The plan will be implemented incrementally, banning the sale of gas- and diesel-powered…
    Tim Pearce
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    Ratepayers Get Cold Shoulder as Green Energy Gets ‘Preferential Treatment’ in Delaware
    Delaware residents are the victims of deceptive business practices associated with a green energy scheme resulting from elected officials’ sweetheart deal with a fuel cell company, policy analysts and academics argue. Bloom Energy had pledged to create 900 full-time jobs in Delaware by Sept. 30, 2016, and to continue employing these workers for at least…
    Kevin Mooney
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