The EPA's recently announced Affordable Clean Energy rule, replacing former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, is the most significant shift towards energy sanity in more than a decade. And it's driving Democrats crazy.
President Trump's new rule finally swings the pendulum back from the moment in 2007 when former President George W. Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act. The absurd aim of that bill was to replace oil from the ground with energy grown from plants.
California governor Jerry Brown, whose state is legislating for 100 percent renewable energy by 2045, blasted the rule change, calling it " A declaration of war against America and all of humanity." Delaware Democratic Sen. Tom Carper said it would send clean energy jobs to China, oblivious to the reality that Democrats' war on coal is already doing exactly that.
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