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May 27, 2019

Daniel Turner: Stealth AOC ‘Green New Deal’ now the law in New Mexico, voters be damned

And that’s exactly how radical green groups want it.

May 23, 2019

Ben Lieberman: There's a new addition to the list of enemies of the planet -- buildings (yes, buildings!)

Environmentalists and their friends in Congress dislike an ever-expanding list of materials and industries American families rely on. Now there’s a new addition to the list of enemies of the planet: buildings. 

May 23, 2019

AOC says only a 'sea sponge' would believe her '12 years' doomsday remark, but most Dems bought it

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the world will “end in 12 years” unless climate change is tackled was accepted as a fact by two-thirds of Democrats, even though she said herself that only those with the “social intelligence of a sea sponge” could actually believe it.

May 22, 2019

House GOP resolution blasts 'Green New Deal' as violating nation's 'bedrock principles'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's, D-N.Y., Green New Deal is a "thinly veiled" attempt to create a socialist society, a resolution pushed by the Republican Study Committee said. 

May 22, 2019

Reuben Franco: California's GND experience reveals that workers, minorities suffer most from Dems’ plan

California’s experience – now being replicated on the national level with the Green New Deal – could signal the Democrats’ drift toward ambitious dreams and away from the day-to-day challenges of working families and people at the margins of the economy, especially people of color.

May 21, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez says growing cauliflower in community gardens is 'colonial'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday that growing cauliflower in community gardens is part of the “colonial” attitudes that her Green New Deal will stamp out.

May 16, 2019

Inslee unveils $9 trillion plan to battle climate change

Democratic presidential candidate Jay Inslee on Thursday unveiled a wide-ranging plan he says would combat climate change by shifting the U.S. from dependence on fossil fuels to renewable energy.

May 14, 2019

Trump says Green New Deal 'might be a bigger hoax' than Russia probe

President Donald Trump took aim at the Green new Deal on Tuesday during a speech to energy industry workers, saying the proposal to fight climate change “might be a bigger hoax” than the investigation into Russian meddling in U.S. elections.

May 14, 2019

Biden defends his climate record after Ocasio-Cortez criticism, tells critics to ‘calm down’

Joe Biden is pushing back against criticism by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that he’s “middle of the road” when it comes to tackling climate change.

May 14, 2019

Green New Deal 'unworkable, unaffordable and unpopular': Sen. John Barrasso

Sen. John Barrasso, R, WY, slammed the Green New Deal during an interview on Tuesday just a day after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders hosted a rally in support of the bill's lofty environmental goals.