Dem Climate Bill Abandones Green Zealotry — for Reason

The Senate has passed the Democrats' mega climate, health care and taxation bill along party lines and after much griping from Republicans. "The Green New Deal Democrats are coming straight after American natural gas with huge tax hikes," Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said of the bill last week. "The result will be higher electricity bills, higher heating costs, less exporting to our European allies."

Senator McConnell has a point: The Inflation Reduction Act's emphasis on solar and wind energy seems misplaced and rife for profiteering by Wall Street and its allies. And yet, to call this bill a representation of "Green New Deal Democrats" is false. The opposite: There bill represents a promising shift away from the hysteria over the "climate catastrophe" and toward more reasonable and effective policies.

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