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Rather than make energy more expensive, it's time to invest in the technologies of tomorrow

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imageThe EPA Clean Power Plan imposes limits on power plants' carbon emissions. ataferner/flickr, CC BY-NC

Democrats (myself included) enjoy ridiculing Republicans who deny the scientific consensus behind climate change. But we then deny the inconvenient truth behind our own preferred climate policies: they will have regressive...

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