
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><b class=""><font color="#0a2336" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class="">Excerpt : </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px;" class="">…</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class=""> </span></font></b><font color="#0a2336" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class=""> in many ways the campaign against the Green New Deal, is just a rehash of an old one. </span></font></span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class="">For example, just four years after</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class=""> </span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class="">The Wall Street Journal </em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class="">article, and several years before the rise of the Green New Deal,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class=""> </span><a href="https://grist.org/climate-energy/solar-panels-could-destroy-u-s-utilities-according-to-u-s-utilities" target="_blank" style="letter-spacing: 0.36px; outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); text-decoration: none;" class=""><em class="">Grist</em> was already reporting that rooftop solar panels</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class=""> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;" class="">could compete against the coal-burning utilities, with utility execs openly admitting the risk to their business. </span>So a war against solar began at once, and the attacks were quick and fierce. These attacks, predating the Green New Deal, were early warnings of the broader attacks we see now on the Green New Deal itself. </span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The attacks on renewables haven’t stopped, and the same old reasons remain the same old reasons. As of February 19, 2019, the Energy and Policy Institute reported on direct attacks being led by the “<a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/attacks-renewable-energy" target="_blank" style="outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); text-decoration: none;" class="">coal and gas industries that fear competition from the booming renewable energy industry.</a>" </span></div><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div class="rImgC" data-type="full" style="margin: 24px 0px; clear: both;"></div></div><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In a way, then, nothing has changed. It’s still the same old big, energetic, even fierce campaign to defend a fossil fuel economy from competition in the form of cleaner economy such as solar and wind. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://mountainjournal.org/green-new-deal-faces-uphill-fight-in-wyoming-and-montana-coal-country" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/green-new-deal-faces-uphill-fight-in-wyoming-and-montana-coal-country</a></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">

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