Rockingham County Republican Committee
Promise and Viability
of Green and Progressive Agendas
Green Policy
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Sept 14, 2023, House Passes Bill to Protect Gas-Powered Cars Amid California's Electric Vehicle Push, Daily Signal
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Sept 5, 2023, Scotland Sees Pollution Increase After Imposing Climate Restrictions, Frontline News
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Aug 18, 2023, Downed Powerlines Near Bird Sanctuary Likely Caused Maui Wildfires, Truth Press
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July 25, 2023, Experts Say Decades of Recycling Hype Have Dramatically Backfired, Science Alert
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[Should have focused on energy independence and kept nuclear power]
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July 6, 2023, Toyota Claims Battery Breakthrough That Will Lead to 745-mile Range, Inside EVs
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July 6, 2023, Failed Wind Farm Site Is Biggest Land Sale in Maine This Year, Bangor Daily News
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July 4, 2023, Carbon 'Capture' Tech Is Booming and Confusing, Phys.org
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June 28, 2023, Hydrogen Economy Get a Boost With New Low Cost Catalyst, Oil Price
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June 27, 2023, Why The Wind Power Industry Has Hit Turbulence, Reuters
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June 22, 2023, How Renewable Energy Prosumers Are Decentralizing the Grid, Oil Price
May 31, 2023, Debunking Another Misleading Green Energy Study, Daily Signal
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May 4, 2023, Hydrogen Is Still in The Game, But Maybe Not for Cars, Hagerty Media
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May 4, 2023, US' Largest Clean Energy Infrastructure Project Is Kicking Off Construction, Electrek
(SunZia windpower and electric transmission project in Southwestern US)
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Apr 18, 2023, Green Energy and Equity Efforts: Where Are Infrastructure Dollars Going?, Washington Examiner
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Apr 14, 2023, USPS Balks at Dem Plan to Turn Post Offices into Charging Stations, Washington Free Beacon
[USPS concerned adding stations would clog parking and slow down mail]
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Apr 11, 2023, Poll: Nearly Half of Americans Say It is Unlikely Their Next Car Will Be an Electric Vehicle, CNBC
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Apr 4, 2023, Green New Boondoggle: California's Power Grid Needs $9 Billion to Go Green, Washington Free Beacon
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May 28, 2023, New Study Explores How Long EV Batteries Actually Last, Yahoo News
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May 25, 2023, Biden Administration Announces New Restrictions on Air Conditioners, America News Nation
[This week Energy Sec Granholm announced new standards for room air cleaners and room air conditioners to take effect in 2024]
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Mar 23, 2023, Women Are less Likely to Buy Electric Vehicles Than Men - Here's What's Holding Them Back, Inside Climate News
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Mar 23, 2023, Inflation Reduction? Dems' Climate Spending Spree Cost $1.2 Trillion, Analysts Say, Daily Caller
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Mar 13, 2023, How Biden's New Washing Machine Rules Could Ruin Laundry Day, Washington Free Beacon
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Mar 12, 2023, The Real Price of Wind and Solar, Wall Street Journal
[First pay for renewables, then pay for the slack]
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Mar 9, 2023, VW Reconsiders EV Battery Factory Location Lured by US$10 Billion in US Government Tax Subsidies, Notebook Check
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Mar 9, 2023, One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy that Any Other State - And It's Not California, Inside Climate News
[Texas, All states are listed]
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Mar 3, 2023, Tesla Did Introduce The Model 2 This Week at $26,000, But Kept It Quiet, Forbes
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Mar 3, 2023, Xiaomi Makes A Big Breakthrough in Solid-state Battery Technology, Arena EV
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Mar 1, 2023, California Toxic Waste Dumped in Arizona, Utah, AZ Central
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Mar 1, 2023, Will Electric Car Batteries Stall California's Mandate, Cal Matters
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Feb 28, 2023, How Biden's 'Green Energy Economy' is Benefiting Left-Wing Billionaires, Washington Free Beacon
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Feb 27, 2023, Genetically Modified Trees Are Growing in Forests for the First Time, IFL Science
[The genetically modified trees absorb more carbon than natural trees]
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Feb 27, 2023, You Apple iPhone is Charging Slowly Because Apple Wants To Fight Climate Change, Washington Free Beacon
[Apple automatically turns on feature to reduce user's 'carbon footprint']
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Feb 27, 2023, Not So Clean After All: Biden's Favorite Ford F-150 Electric Truck Gets Metal From Brazilian Refinery That's Killing People, Washington Free Beacon
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Feb 27, 2023, Report: Electric Vehicle Owners Face 'Logistical Nightmare' in Charging Cars, Washington Free Beacon
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Feb 22, 2023, EV Battery Manufacturers Pollute to Keep Up With Demand, Jalopnik
[The Indonesian Morowali Industrial Park is polluting a paradise. Current environmental damage from mining and manufacturing of EV Batteries and their disposal which remains unknown must be weighed carefully in developing government policy moving forward]
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Feb 21, 2023, University of Maryland Scientists Discover Lithium Replacement From Crabs That May Revolutionize EV Batteries: 99.7 percent efficient over 400 hours, The Cool Down
[There are now weekly articles such as this giving positive push to the EV industry, but it remains to be seen whether such technology will be developed]
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Feb 13, 2023, Cummins Retiring Two Engines With New X10 Engine, Freightwaves
[Engine will meet 2027 emissions standards and run on multiple fuels]
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Feb 13, 2023, 10 Most Promising EV Battery Stocks According to Analysts, Yahoo News
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Jan 22, 2023, What Will the Unnamed Partner Mean for Dominion Partners, Jefferson Policy Institute
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Jan 16, 2023, Meet the Green Energy Group Behind Calls to Ban Gas Stoves, Washington Free Beacon
[Rocky Mountain Institute institute partnered with China to implement 'economy-wide transformation' Away from Oil and Gas]
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Jan 2, 2023, Biden Admin Quietly Reinstates "Overreaching' EPA Rule Potentially Regulating 'Puddles and Ditches', Fox Business News
[This rule allows for bureaucrats to engage in lots of mischief in rural areas]
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Dec 30, 2022, Slaven: Four Questions to Ask Climate Change Alarmists, Daily Caller
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Dec 28, 2022, Georgia Rivian E.V. Plant Named Worst Economic Development Deal of 2022, Reason
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Dec 23, 2022, A $3.5 Billion EV Battery Plant in South Carolina Will Convert Millions of Old Batteries into New Parts, Singularity Hub
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Dec 23, 2022, Green Battery Backed by Billionaires Gates, Bezos, and Branson Plans Factory in West Virginia to Reshape Energy System, Recharge
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Dec 21, 2022, Groundwater Replenishes Much Faster Than Scientists Thought, PhysOrg
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Dec 21, 2022, New Method Can Break Down 95% of Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in About 45 Minutes, Science Alert
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Dec 20, 2022, Researchers at SUNY ESF Are One Step Away from Re-Populating Trees That Became Extinct Almost 100 Years Ago, New York Upstate
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Dec 20, 2022, Solar Power World Record Broken in "Really Big Leap' for Solar Power, Independent (UK)
[As with all 'leaps' how adaptable is the leap to manufacturing?, how marketable in a competitive market?, and what timeline to market?]
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Dec 18, 2022, Google Gobbled Up Nearly 300 Million Gallons of The Dalles, Oregon City Water Amid Drought, Tried to Keep It Secret, Truth Press
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Nov 23, 2022, Ford Explains How To Make an Electric Vehicle Go Farther in the Cold, Fox News
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Nov 22, 2022, How Long Do Electric Car Batteries Last? Question at the Top of EV Buyers List, US News
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Nov 21, 2022, Aeromine's Cutting Edge Motionless Wind Turbine Needs No Blade, Interesting Engineering
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Nov 21, 2022, Biden Agrees to Pay Climate Reparations - and China, the World's Top Carbon Emitter, Could Benefit, Washington Free Beacon
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Nov 19, 2022, RV Giant Thor Industries Partners With Electric Vehicle Company, RV Travel
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Nov 17, 2022, California Klamath Dam Demolition in US History Set for Western River, NPR
[Klamath River Dams were built to control flooding after devastating flood s in the 1960s, but during recent drought years the dams appear unnecessary]
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Nov 5, 2022, Electric Vehicle Push Promises Unprecedented Problems, American Liberty News
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Nov 4, 2022, Biden Says Coal Plants 'All Across America' Will Be Shut Down and Replaced, Truth Press
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Nov 4, 2022, The EPA's New Methane Rules Could Force Small Oil and Gas Drillers Out of Business, Daily Caller
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Oct 5, 2022, Rep. Cline Blasts Biden-Buttigieg Green Energy Handouts, The Republican Standard
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Sept 20,, 2022, Pink Energy Solar Company Shuts Down Suddenly Without Warning Leaving Virginia Residents Searching for Answers, WRIC
[Pink Energy was formerly known as PowerHome Solar]
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Sept 20, 2022, What Virginia Wants to Do With Electric Vehicle Charging Money, Virginia Mercury
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Sept 19, 2022, Don't Believe the Hype About Antarctica's Melting Glaciers, Wall Street Journal
[Two studies carefully explore the factors at play, but headlines are meant to raise alarm]
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Aug 29, 2022, Nine Past Climate Change Predictions, Daily Signal
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Aug 24, 2022, Renewables Subsidy Chaos Coming, The Jefferson Institute
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Aug 24, 2022, 'Extremely Challenging': California Set to Ban Gas-powered Cars, Daily Caller
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Aug 9, 2022, Nancy Pelosi's Son, A 'Green Technology' and 'Lithium' Investor was an 'Unnamed Guest' on Her Taiwan Trip, Daily Caller
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Aug 6, 2022, Biden's Civil War on Energy is Leaving Endless Collateral Damage in its Wake, Daily Caller
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Aug 6, 2022, Democratic Proposal Could Make 70 Percent of Electric Vehicles Ineligible for Tax Credit, Daily Caller
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July 26, 2022, Solar Installation Hastens Loss of Virginia Farmland, The Jefferson Institute
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July 19, 2022, Biden Poised to Declare Climate Emergency to Ram Through Green Agenda: Report, Daily Caller
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July 15, 2022, Sri Lanka Collapses, Dutch Farmers Revolt. Blame 'Green' Policies, Daily Signal
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July 11, 2022, Biggest Reason Why People Aren't Buying Electric Cars, Epoch Times
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July 9, 2022, Regulators Approve $55 minimum bill for Dominion solar. It in the country the most expensive in the country, Virginia Mercury
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July 1, 2022, North Dakota Rules on Bill Gates Farmland Purchase of more than 2,100 Acres, Western Journal
[Bill Gates owns more than 270,000 acres of land and is the largest owner of farmland in the United States]
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July 1, 2022, Dutch Farmers Rise Up and Block Roads and Highways with Tractors Over Climate Tyranny, Western Journal
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June 30, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court Delivers Massive Blow to Biden's Climate Agenda, daily Caller
[Limits authority of EPA to act unilaterally]
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June 30, 2022, Virginia SCC Asked to Put Wind Failure Risk on Dominion, Not Customers, Jefferson Institute
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June 29, 2022, Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) is Reminded: Ratepayers Bear All Risk of Dominion Wind Turbines, Jefferson Institute
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June 17, 2022, Not One Pickup Truck With a Diesel Engine is Recommended By Consumer Reports, Motor Biscuit
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May 8, 2022, Utilities Push Back Against Growth of Rooftop Solar, NBC News
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May 3, 2022, Biden's Plan for 'Climate Friendly' Military Vehicles, Daily Signal
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Apr 29, 2022, Earth Day Activists Ignore Big Wind's Carnage to Eagles, Daily Signal
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Apr 26, 2022, Five TakeAways from Virginia's Landmark Solar Survey, Virginia Mercury
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Apr 21, 2022, 18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions Were Made Aroun d the Time of the First Earth Day, Expect More This Year, American Enterprise Institute
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Apr 23, 2022, Video: Fed Up Commutters in Vancouver, Washington Drag Climate Protesters Off Highway at Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, Western Journal
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Apr 20, 2022, Biden's EPA Caught Using 'Rescue Plan Funds" - Fox News Report Claims They Used Millions for Green Infrastructure Plan, Patriot Journal
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Apr 7, 2022, California's Sky-high Electricity Prices Bring a Shock to Biden's EV Dream, Daily Caller
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Apr 7, 2022, Three Recent Examples of Governt Environmental Extremism, Daily Signal
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Apr 5, 2022, 'Relic of the Past': Democrats Cheer Biden's Fuel Economy Standards That Will Make Cars More Expensive, Daily Caller
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Mar 28, 2022, Tilting at Windmills: How Biden's Green New Deal Threatens Whales, Daily Signal
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Mar 19, 2022, Cost of Charging EV versus Refueling Gas Vehicles, CNBC
[Electricity prices have risen, but still cheaper to recharge electric vehicles]
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Mar 10, 2022, Dominion Energy's Proposed Charge for Solar Program Is Absurdly High, Virginia Mercury
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Feb 6, 2022, Are Electric Cars the New Diesel Scandal?, Daily Mail (UK)
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Dec 29, 2021, Illinois Green Lights Emission-Heavy Power Plant Shortly After Passing Clean Energy Bill, Daily Caller
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Dec 17, 2021, Key Permit Approved for Controversial Virginia's Mountain Valley Pipeline, The Republican Standard
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Dec 13, 2021, Green Energy Push is Contributing to Forced Labor, Slavery, Daily Caller
[solar panels are made in western China with forced labor by Uighurs]
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Dec 10, 2021, A Different Perspective on Global Warming, Daily Signal
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Dec 8, 2021, Electric Vehicle Push is Sparking Massive Deforestation, Environmental Damage, Daily Caller
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Nov 5, 2021, Dominion Offshore Wind Price Tag Jumps by $2 billion, Virginia Mercury
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Nov 5, 2021, Electric Van Maker Workhorse Is Being Investigated by the Justice Department Documents Show, Wall Street Journal
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Oct 27, 2021, Ten Ways Biden's 'Build Back Better' Bill Will Kill Economic Opportunity, Daily Signal
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August 9, 2021, What You Need to Know About Biden's New Ill-Conceived Executive Order on Electric Vehicles, Daily Signal
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June 28, 2021, Biden Administration is Skewing Carbon Numbers to Push Regulations, Daily Signal
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June 25, 2021, Tough Questions About Electric Vehicles Unasked, Unanswered By the Green Left, Daily Signal
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June 21, 2021, Climate Disclosures and Their Stealth Mission, Hoover Institution
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May 23, 2021, Not Just Another Drought: The American West Moves from Dry to Bone Dry, Resilience
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Sept 23, 2022, Fifty Years of Failed Doomsday Eco-pocalyptic Predictions, The So-Called Experts are 0-50, American Enterprise Institute
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Progressive Policies
July 18, 2023, How New York City's Green 'Congestion Tax' Could Backfire, Washington Examiner
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[NYC wanted to help environment and minorities, but ended up hurting both]
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[Gaint Food joined event]
[Audits call for abolition of standards of merit]
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Dec 9, 2021, Victor Davis Hanson: The Woke Got What They Wanted - and Then What?, Daily Signal
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June 7, 2021, Stephen D. Haner, "Northam Regs Out of Step with Reality," Jefferson Policy Journal
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May 12, 2021, Northam Tax Harvest Expands Again, Jefferson Policy Journal
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