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Senior officials will answer questions on the Biden administration's plans to fight climate change in a CNN town hall TONIGHT at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT.

White House Hosts Historic Climate Summit: World leaders (mostly) announced strengthened national commitments to fight climate change on day one of a two-day virtual summit hosted by the White House. Complete with video conferencing glitches, the summit, attended by more than 40 world leaders, remarkably reflected the zeitgeist. Full coverage is below. We recommend clicking the 'view in browser' link at the top-right of this email. 

NYC Sues Oil Companies, API For Misleading Consumers On Climate: New York City is suing three major oil companies and API for misleading consumers in violation of state consumer protection law. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in state court, is the latest in a drumbeat of litigation brought by states and municipalities across the country seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contribution to climate change. Those cases also include suits brought by Maui County, Annapolis, Md., and the state of Minnesota, alleging fossil fuel companies violated consumer protection safeguards by lying to their customers about the impact of their products on climate change. New York City’s lawsuit says Exxon Mobil, Shell, and BP "falsely present themselves as corporate leaders in the fight against climate change" and falsely advertised their gas sold at New York City gas stations as "cleaner" and "emissions-reducing." The suit also argues API "misleads NYC consumers by promoting fossil fuels as integral to ‘climate solutions’ without disclosing that fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change." (Reuters, CNN, Politico Pro $, Bloomberg $, E&E $, NY1, The Hill, Fortune)

Trump Admin Delayed $20 Billion In Puerto Rico Hurricane Aid, Obstructed Investigation, IG Says: The Trump administration created bureaucratic obstacles to delay about $20 billion of relief for Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and then obstructed an investigation into the delays, an inspector general report released Thursday says. Hurricane Maria killed thousands of Puerto Ricans and left the island without power and clean water for months. Also Thursday, researchers from the George Washington University and the University of Puerto Rico announced they will survey nearly 1,700 people to learn more about why the death toll of the Category 4 storm was so high. (IG report: Washington Post $, NBC, CNN, The Guardian, The Independent; Research: AP)

Mexico City Residents Cary Water By Donkey Amidst Drought: Lakes and reservoirs are drying up as 85% of Mexico is in drought, with Mexico City in its worst drought in 30 years. Major reservoirs that supply the capital's 9 million residents are more than half empty, a result of three consecutive extremely dry years, and about 75% of the country's second-largest lake is dry. Climate change makes droughts worse by changing precipitation patterns and increasing evaporation caused by higher temperatures. "Because we live on the hill, there is no drinking water," Mexico City resident Karina Ortega told Reuters. "The water that we get on the donkeys, that's used for food because it is cleaner. But we do struggle a lot with this." (Reuters, AP; Climate Signals background: Drought)

LEADING FROM THE FRONT-LINES: 6 Black climate change leaders you need to know: ‘We have to be active. It is literally a matter of life or death’ (CNBC), 10 Black climate leaders fighting for environmental and racial justice (The Grio), ‘they gave people kibbles and bits’: Black Memphis residents are fighting oil pipeline land grab (Southerly Mag, The Guardian, and MLK 50)

INTERSECTIONALITY: ‘All We Can Save’ authors push for more diversity in climate discussion (Today Show) Intersectional environmentalism is the urgent way forward (Marie Claire, Leah Thomas op-ed)

(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: A tribal nation dependent on fossil fuels was left in the cold when the pandemic hit (The Hill and Nexus Media News) Ma’Khia Bryant’s family remember her as loving, affectionate: ‘She didn’t even have a chance to live her life’ (Washington Post $), officer who killed Ma'Khia Bryant identified as Nicholas Reardon (The Root), officers grabbed a Black librarian by her hair and tore her shoulder during traffic stop, lawsuit alleges: ‘that’s good police work, baby’ (Washington Post $)

ALL THOSE NUMBERS: How to understand the numbers of climate change (Washington Post $), how come nations’ climate targets don’t compare? (AP), 

EARTH DAY: 10 things we learned about Earth since the last Earth Day (Vox), it's time to kill Earth Day (Earther), late Night celebrates Earth Day (New York Times $)

IMPACTS' IMPACTS: Mayors ask Biden to be included in climate migration study (AP) 

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: Chevron lobbies to head off new sanctions on Myanmar (New York Times $, Reuters)

AGENCIES: U.S. financial regulators in hot seat as Biden ramps up climate agenda (Reuters)

EPA: 5 takeaways from Michael Regan's week on the Hill (E&E $), Regan pledges aggressive approach at climate summit (E&E $)

DOT: Biden administration gives California back its power to regulate vehicle emissions (San Francisco Chronicle, AP, Politico Pro $) Buttigieg vows more work on fuel emissions soon (Bloomberg $), Buttigieg says climate summit an opportunity for US to regain moral leadership on crisis (CNN)

DOI: Oil leasing freeze will continue into summer (E&E $), internment camp survivor wants NPS to preserve his past (E&E $)

LAWSUITS: Second GOP lawsuit challenges Biden on social cost of carbon (Politico Pro $)

THE HILL: 'Far too small': Democrats pile on GOP infrastructure plan (Politico Pro $), GOP infrastructure plan offers less cash for water systems, omits power grid, EV money (Politico Pro $), Republicans test lines of attack on White House jobs, infrastructure plan (Utility Dive), Republicans unveil $568 billion infrastructure package to counter Biden (Reuters), GOP tells world to doubt Biden's word on climate (E&E $), Republicans blast Kerry for climate pressure on banks (E&E $), Republicans look to slash the size of Biden’s infrastructure plan (New York Times $)

HOUSE: [House Financial Services] Committee approves environmental disclosure bill (E&E $), Grijalva calls for return of public lands agency to DC after Trump moved BLM out West (The Hill), hearing sparks debate over federal role in [water infrastructure] upgrades (E&E $), lawmakers revisit 'case for a federal climate service' (E&E $)

SENATE: Bill Nelson trumpets NASA climate research (E&E $), Postal Service should buy more electric vehicles, Senator [Tom Carper] says (Bloomberg $), Sen. Wyden proposes bill ending fossil fuel tax breaks, boosting clean energy incentives (Utility Dive, E&E $), Senate to vote next week on repealing Trump methane rule (The Hill, Politico Pro $, E&E $), Schumer, White House push disputed innovation bill (E&E $), Senate panel OKs bill expanding USDA's role in carbon markets (E&E $), Senate Republicans counter Biden infrastructure plan with $568bn proposal (FT $), Senators spar over Biden green energy infrastructure push (The Hill), Wyden: Finance Committee will soon deliver China competitiveness bill (Politico Pro $)

WHITE HOUSE: Biden wants to slash emissions. success would mean a very different America. (New York Times $), Biden seeks to boost climate financing for developing countries, limit fossil fuel investment (The Hill, Politico Pro $), how climate became the centerpiece of Biden’s economic agenda (Vox), President Biden pushes offshore wind as green energy alternative (CBS)

U.S. NDC: Biden announces US will aim to cut carbon emissions by as much as 52% by 2030 at virtual climate summit (CNN, Axios, Earther, Utility Dive, E&E $, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, New York Times $, The Verge), making sense of Biden's big emissions promise (Axios), what slashing emissions could mean for you (New York Times $), how the US might reach Biden's new climate goal (Wired), the U.S. has a new climate goal. how does it stack up globally? (New York Times $), what Biden's 2030 climate target means for energy (E&E $), what Biden’s emissions goal means to a warming world (Bloomberg $) Biden made the world a bold promise. Here's Congress' role (E&E $)

CLIMATE SUMMIT: Key takeaways from the Biden Earth Day summit (Reuters, New York Times $), Biden spells out U.S. climate goal, urges other world leaders to go big (Washington Post $, E&E $, The Hill), Biden wanted to rally the world around his new climate target. Not all nations joined (LA Times $), here’s what a leader of the next UN climate talks will be watching for at Biden’s summit. (New York Times $), 40 world leaders attend Biden's climate summit (CNN), leaders flag need to adapt to 'punishing reality' of hotter planet (Thomson Reuters Foundation, Politico Pro $), UN expert Achim Steiner urges private sector address climate change (Reuters), with an all-hands-on-deck international summit, Biden signals the US is ready to lead the world on climate (InsideClimate News), the Biden climate doctrine emerges at summit (Axios), Biden to focus on job creation as he virtually hosts second day of global climate summit (Washington Post $), here’s what’s on the schedule for the last day of Biden’s climate summit (New York Times $), jobs are make-or-break argument for Biden in climate plan (AP)

CLIMATE SUMMIT, UPDATED PLANS: All the new emissions targets announced at Biden’s climate summit (Axios, CNBC, Reuters), as nations gather for Biden’s virtual climate summit, ambitious pledges that still fall short of Paris goal (InsideClimate News), Australia has been talking up its climate credentials – but do the claims stack up? (The Guardian), Canada aims to almost halve its emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels - PM Trudeau (Reuters, Politico Pro $), climate change isn't 'bunny hugging' - UK's Johnson hails Biden's big emissions pledge (Reuters), Japan raises emissions cut target to 46% by 2030 (AP), Putin sticks to weak climate target as other nations aim higher (Bloomberg $, Reuters)

CLIMATE SUMMIT, LOGISTICS: A few virtual hiccups, abundant global relief as Biden puts the U.S. back in the game on climate efforts (Washington Post $), climate change summit glitch cuts off Macron, puzzles Putin (Reuters), stuck on mute? U.S. climate summit exposes perils of online diplomacy (Thomson Reuters Foundation), the virtual summit makes history, but proves even world leaders aren’t immune to tech issues (New York Times $), unmute, please: Echoes, glitches resound in virtual summit (AP)

CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: The US badly needs to build credibility in the fight against climate change (CNN), rich nations under fire for funding gas as 'bridge fuel' overseas (Thomson Reuters Foundation), a brief timeline of U.S. climate pledges made, and discarded (LA Times $), Britain, Norway and the United States join forces with businesses to protect tropical forests. (New York Times $), trees for visas: Mexico suggests US citizenship for reforestation (Reuters, AP), US, Canadian governments to collaborate on green government-operations initiative (The Hill), world leaders pledge climate cooperation despite other rifts (AP, The Hill) Biden ushers in a new era of climate geopolitics (Washington Post, Ishaan Tharoor $)

CLIMATE DIPLOMACY, AID: Biden’s climate credibility may hinge on whether he makes good on U.S. financial commitments to developing nations (InsideClimate News, Vox), U.S. to double public climate finance to developing countries by 2024 (Reuters, Climate Home, Axios) Biden pledges international finance plan as he presides over virtual global climate summit (Washington Post $) Biden doubles climate spending abroad, disappointing greens (E&E $)

CLIMATE DIPLOMACY, BRAZIL: Brazil's Bolsonaro, under U.S. pressure, vows climate neutrality by 2050 (Reuters), the climate change bargaining game (Washington Post $), Biden hoping for Brazil's Bolsonaro to agree to stop destroying the Amazon rainforest (NPR)

CLIMATE DIPLOMACY, CHINA: China says climate should not be used as bargaining chip in geopolitical struggle (Reuters), China’s leader, Xi Jinping, promises to ‘strictly limit’ coal. (New York Times $, The Hill), does the U.S.-China climate statement mean real cooperation ahead? (Washington Post $), solving the climate crisis hinges on the U.S. and China cooperating (Earther), Biden’s climate summit shows rivalry with U.S. complicates China’s green push (Washington Post $), China and the climate (New York Times $) 

AMERICAN JOBS PLAN: Biden plan on climate could be source of job creation for Black America (The Grio), Biden: 'moral imperative' to fight climate change will create jobs (Politico Pro $)

EXECUTIVE BRANCH: ‘All gung-ho' GSA starts sprint to green the government (E&E $)

POLITICS: White House dances around a big contributor to climate change: agriculture (Politico), Biden scores record high approval rating among young voters, according to new poll (Washington Post $)

NOMINEES & CONFIRMATIONS: Biden names BLM, NOAA chiefs among dozen new officials (E&E $, Politico Pro $), Biden taps Montana environmentalist [Tracy Stone-Manning] for US public lands boss (AP), Biden plans to nominate ocean scientist Rick Spinrad to head NOAA, the country’s premier climate science agency. (New York Times $, Washington Post $), Schumer tees up vote on McCabe to be EPA deputy (Politico Pro $)

CITIES AND STATES: Minnesota gasps at the financial damage it faces from the Texas freeze (Washington Post $), bill to prevent and fight wildfires approved by [Washington state] legislature (AP), Michael Keaton's next project? Green construction in Pittsburgh (Reuters), NJ to bake climate change risk into policies, share costs (AP)

IMPACTS: As leaders hail climate ambitions, activists warn of devastation now (The Hill), Europe’s changing climate viewed from orbit shows rising danger (Bloomberg $), the 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever (Grist) Millions of groundwater wells at risk of running dry (E&E $)

DROUGHT: Newsom launches effort to deal with drought; emergencies declared in two counties (LA Times $), California wells will go dry this summer. ‘Alarm bells are sounding’ in the Valley (Fresno Bee), amid a record-dry April, a late-week storm won’t quell severe drought in California, West (Washington Post $), this stunning timelapse shows the megadrought’s toll on the West’s largest reservoir (Vox)

SOLUTIONS: Humanity’s greatest ally against climate change is the Earth itself (Washington Post $), does recycled gold herald a greener future for jewelry? (New York Times $)

GLOBAL GDP: Climate change could cut world economy by $23 trillion in 2050, insurance giant [Swiss Re] warns (New York Times $, The Hill, Reuters)

RENEWABLES: ‘World’s most powerful tidal turbine’ gears up for operation (CNBC), as Biden touts clean-energy jobs, here's what employment in the field looks like today (CBS), Credit Suisse says this could be the beginning of a ‘multi-decade’ opportunity for clean energy (CNBC), solar panels on California’s canals could save water and help fight climate change (LA Times $), some straight talk about renewables and reliability (InsideClimate News), Telsa’s solar panels to be sold with powerwall from next week (Bloomberg $)

BATTERIES: Start-ups aim to change car battery recycling, clean up world's most polluting industry (Reuters), Visa pledges net zero, wants cardholders to see their emissions (Bloomberg $)

OIL & GAS: Engen to convert oldest south Africa refinery to import terminal (Bloomberg $), Kinder Morgan posts first quarter profit (Houston Chronicle), oil and gas companies release 5-year plan to slash CO2 (E&E $), year-end deal frenzy carried into the first quarter of 2021 (Houston Chronicle)

PLASTICS: New technique could turn plastic back into oil, which is … something (Earther)

PIPELINES: 62 groups urge Biden admin to scrap Mountain Valley permits (E&E $)

COAL: Biden's climate goal would end American coal (E&E $)

HYDROGEN: The Hydrogen Economy: Can Natural Gas And H2 Have A Symbiotic Relationship? (SP Global)

UTILITIES: Electric co-ops: Biden clean power plan 'overly ambitious' (E&E $), U.S. gas utility ordered to return cash used in climate lobbying (Bloomberg $)

GRID: Biden's sweeping climate goal comes down to one thing (Politico)

EVs: Report: All new cars and trucks in U.S. could be electric by 2035 (Yale Climate Connections), White House touts EVs, but not backing gasoline-powered phase-out date (Reuters), Biden wants $15 billion for ev charging stations (Bloomberg $), Buttigieg, McCarthy push for more charging stations (E&E $)

CARBON REMOVAL: John Kerry’s climate warning: ‘even if we get to net zero, we need carbon removal’ (HuffPost), Tesla CEO Musk puts $100 million jolt into quest for carbon removal (Reuters)

ACTIVISM: Climate protests go virtual on Earth Day, but still have a voice (New York Times $), facing a climate crisis, these youth activists stay focused on solutions (CNN), climate activists converge on Washington with a gift and a warning for Biden and world leaders (InsideClimate News) activists dump cow poop to protest Biden climate plan (The Hill)

AVIATION: Leaded gas was phased out 25 years ago. Why are these planes still using toxic fuel? (NBC)

AGRICULTURE: U.S. seeks to conserve more farmland as crop prices climb (Reuters)

BITCOIN: What Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey are missing about bitcoin and green energy (Bloomberg $), Jack and Elon are promoting Bitcoin on Earth Day for some reason (it makes them richer) (Earther)

BUSINESS: Amazon and Nestle join public-private plan to save world's forests (Reuters)

CARBON PRICING: IMF chief urges G20 to adopt carbon price floor to reach climate goals (Reuters)

FINANCE: A zero-carbon future is now the central thesis for most financial giants (Axios), finance boost crucial to get all on board for net-zero emissions, says UN chief (Thomson Reuters Foundation), global financiers worth $70T launch climate campaign (E&E $), UBS tightens lending criteria to coal, Arctic drilling, oil sands (Reuters) Banks hunt for footing at Biden's climate summit (Axios) 

GRETA: Greta Thunberg criticizes "loopholes" in climate commitments at Biden summit (Axios, E&E $, Reuters, The Hill, Earther), 'bunny hugger’: Greta Thunberg trolls Boris Johnson with new Twitter bio (Washington Post $) 

ARCHITECTURE: Georgia Tech structure certified as ‘living building’ (AP)

INTERNATIONAL: South Africa's Nedbank aims zero exposure to fossil fuels by 2045 (Reuters), a heat camera shows where London is succeeding—and failing—at saving power (Bloomberg $), Brussels faces backlash over delay to decision on whether gas is green (FT $), EU to apply CO2 emissions trading to buildings, transport, European Commission says (Reuters), Britain's foreign aid cut: who will feel the impact? (Thomson Reuters Foundation), how limiting fossil fuel extraction in the West could help poorer oil nations (Energy Monitor), Japan's car lobby says it can lead the drive for carbon neutrality (Reuters), OPEC fund helps finance Egypt’s largest private solar plant (Bloomberg $), South Korea promises to end coal finance (Politico Pro $)

• How White House adviser Gina McCarthy sees climate change as a race and gender issue (The 19th* News, interview)
• When climate breakdown hits home: ‘our small town now has a rush hour’ (New York Times, reader submissions $)
• For real progress on climate change, invite the developing world (FT, Gillian Tett op-ed $)
• U.S. emissions pledge fires starting gun on climate race, analysts say (Thomson Reuters Foundation, 12 civil society leaders)
• This climate policy expert is taking over Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion Earth Fund (Vox, Andrew Steer interview)
• The era of climate statecraft is here (The Hill, Carolyn Kissane, Ph.D. op-ed)
• Finally, the wind is at our back on the climate crisis (CNN, Christiana Figueres op-ed)
• Central America needs a bold gesture from the US (FT, Editorial Board $)
• To convict derek Chauvin, prosecutors couldn’t tell the truth about America (Buzzfeed, Elamin Abdelmahmoud commentary)
• Effective and profitable climate solutions are within the nation's farms and forests (The Hill, Heidi Heitkamp and Saxby Chambliss op-ed)
• Lisa Jackson says President Biden’s emphasis on clime in infrastructure plan is ‘huge’ (Washington Post, interview $)
• Jens Stoltenberg: NATO’s climate challenge (Politico EU, Jens Stoltenberg op-ed)
• Let’s all agree that a global climate summit won’t save the planet (New York Times, Kate Aronoff op-ed $)
• A global jobs plan — not another global target (The Hill, Lachlan Carey, Justin Locke, and Uday Varadarajan)
• Biden’s Earth Day party invites the world but courts Americans (Bloomberg, Liam Denning column $)
• Cathie Wood’s ARK has Bitcoin and solar backwards (Bloomberg, Liam Denning column $)
• Getting real about coal and climate (New York Times, Paul Krugman column $)
• Why Biden’s Climate Summit Is Overhyped (Politico, Rich Lowry op-ed)
• We must reimagine public safety—anything less fails our communities (NewsOne, Tiffany Flowers op-ed)
• Living with climate disruption (Climate One, Julia Bernal interview)
• N.A.A.C.P. leader says ‘a few checks’ can’t fix structural racism (New York Times, Derrick Johnson interview $)
• New York Needs Publicly-Owned Utilities, Not Sham Stakeholder Participation (City Limits, Robert Jackson Wood op-ed)

Analyzing Earth Day Opposition Shows “American Energy” Is The New “Freedom Gas” 

As mentioned yesterday, this year’s Earth Day news was dominated by President Biden’s summit of world leaders and a pledge to cut emissions in half by 2030, but that didn’t stop deniers from trying to either crash or poop the party. 

The deplorable caucus spent the day being very mad at the Green New Deal, with locker room-abuse-denier Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) joining pro-treason Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and de-committee’d Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Q) in lashing out at their colleague’s proposal to improve public housing. 

The more serious Republicans were no less stupid, but mostly aimed for the Biden administration instead of the GND, with Sen. Mitch McConnell rattling off a few old “job killer! But China! Paris Agreement bad!” tropes in a tweet, while officially-unethical Mike Pompeo provided the Trump version. 

For example, many republican politicians parroted the oil industry’s new propaganda phrase “American energy,” something that is used to make selling highly polluting oil and gas sound patriotic and climate-friendly. It's “freedom gas” for the post-Trump era. The phrase was modeled by Big Oil front group IPAA’s COO, and Rep. Kevin “$2.1 million in career contributions from the oil and gas industry” McCarthy on FoxNews and parroted in an op-ed in The Hill by next-generation denier Quill Robinson of the ACC. 

Rep. Fred “$1.1 million in oil and gas contributions” Upton one-upton’d them in a Detroit News op-ed, adding “securing” and “cleaner” to the front  for “securing cleaner American energy.” It’s a transparent way to try and make gas — which just failed to keep the power on in Texas, and when it does work makes people sick — sound like it’s safe and reliable and patriotic.

Similar sentiments were expressed by Rep. Carol “$200k from mining and oil and gas, but this was her first campaign” Miller (R-WV) in RealClearEnergy, Sen. John “$1.1m from oil and gas” Barrasso in a quote in the AP, Sen. Ted “at least the oil and gas industry likes me enough to give me $3.7 million” Cruz on Twitter & Facebook (where it was a highly performing post because of course that hellscape is the one place where Ted Cruz is popular). 

It’s also the rhetorical cornerstone of a new bill introduced by Reps. August Pfluger (#3 top recipient of oil and gas money in 2019-2020) and Henry “even some Democrats can be bought by the oil and gas industry for a little shy of a million dollars” Cueller, who talked about how “access to clean American energy is vital to reducing emissions globally” in an op-ed in Brownwood Bulletin pushing natural gas exports. (Exporting the gas, of course, eliminates any supposed price-lowering benefit of increased drilling locally, but the industry isn’t known for logically consistent propaganda…) 

We also saw a seemingly renewed interest in 'energy poverty'-based attacks, particularly coming from those in the organized denial industry. For example, the oil-backed evangelical Christian Cornwall Alliance had their India-based researcher Vijay Jayaraj pen an “open letter to John Kerry from people living in energy poverty” published in TownHall, while career shill Robert Bryce had a similarly crocodilian-teared op-ed in NYPost, as did CEI’s Kent Lassman in the Washington Examiner, rounding out the energy poverty-as-a-fossil-fuel-concern-troll trifecta. 

It is apparently critically important for the poor in India or Africa to get fossil fuels (if not for the dastardly Democrats). For some reason, however, that same spirit of generosity and grace doesn’t extend to China, which many, particularly in conservative/hatemonger media, used to ring xenophobic and nationalist bells while opposing climate action. 

There was a whole Wall Street Journal column about it, Stuart Varney went off on FoxBusiness, National Review’s Rich Lowry was granted Politico space for it, Pat Michaels posted about it and it was part of Myron Ebell’s quote to press (that no one picked up), schmuck Matt Schlapp tweeted about it, and it made an appearance in both McConnell’s tweet and Barrasso’s statement to the AP.

When taken together, it’s clear that House Republicans are going to be using “American Energy” as a last-ditch rhetorical device to try and make their obviously financial dedication to defending dirty energy sound wholesome. 

They know they’ve got to appeal to the vast majority of the public that wants action on climate, but since they’ve primed their base to hate anything green or liberal, they are in the tricky position of having to combine the two. So they’ll talk about dirty energy like it’s clean by calling it “cleaner,” but to make sure it still appeals to conservatives who may otherwise be wary of its newfound climate credibility, party leaders decided to add “American” to it, like a thick layer of mayo on an otherwise dry turkey sandwich. That way it will still appeal to the openly racist, "super-whites-only"  "Anglo-Saxon” wing of the Republican party, that reflexively opposes anything even remotely climate-friendly, or multi-cultural. 

All together then, it’s Cleaner American Energy, a way to describe what’s dirty as clean, but also with an attitude that suggests it’s going to suspiciously stare at anyone vaguely Brown before asking where they’re really from.

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