Red State Freedom Is Better for the Environment Than European Green Socialism

Drew Bond writes for the National Review about how less burdensome climate policies actually yield better environmental outcomes than stringent regulations.

Here is a fact that should embarrass every climate activist: States with the most liberated energy markets in America are producing better environmental outcomes than the green mandators of Europe — and doing it without impoverishing their people in the process.

Freedom, it turns out, is a remarkably effective environmental policy.

This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. For decades, Europe has proclaimed itself the vanguard of the environmental movement. Germany’s Energiewende — its sweeping top-down energy transition initiated in 2010 — was announced as the model every serious nation should follow. Germany shut down its nuclear plants, poured money into mandated renewables, and staked its future on wind generation in the North Sea and solar pulled from its perennially cloudy skies.

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