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RIGHT-O: Conservative group C3 Solutions has launched a project tracking the Republican response to climate change. The Right Voices page is a database of quotes from Republican politicos, including a number of incoming freshmen, billed as “a useful tool for people on all sides who want to understand the essential conservative perspective on climate.” The project will be...

By C3 Solutions’ John Hart in Real Clear Policy. When the final votes are tallied over the coming days, and the dust settles, the first half of the 2020 story will come into focus: Democrats came far closer to losing control of the House than to riding a blue wave. To many Democrats, this result...

by C3 Solutions’ John Hart featured in Real Clear Energy. As expected, the United States Senate confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court Monday night by a vote of 52 to 48. Progressive complaints about Barrett focused mostly on process and charges of hypocrisy. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to...

by C3 Solutions’ Drew Bond featured in Real Clear Energy. When a government wants less of something, it increases taxes on that thing. That’s why cigarettes cost more than $13 per pack in New York City. That principle makes sense, in a way. Governments are skilled at raising taxes. That’s how they get their funding...

GOP EVOLUTION ON CLIMATE: Republican politicians are “getting more sensitive” to the issue of climate change as they’ve been educated on it in past few years, and they’re keen to engage in policy discussions to avoid a “pure regulatory disaster,” said Saxby Chambliss, the former Georgia Republican senator who chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee. “Republicans understand that...

No longer is climate change advocacy the province solely of the left. In recent years, a proliferation of conservative climate groups have attempted to wrench the issue from the hands of the opposition and shore up climate concern on the right. But the “eco-right” — as the loosely connected groups of organizations and advocates identify...

Democrats have good reasons to be optimistic about 2020. But the moment a party or politician believes they own something is the moment they start to lose it. In politics, complacency leads to hubris, hubris leads to pandering and pandering leads to a realignment driven by the forgotten and marginalized. As unlikely as it seems,...

As policymakers search for ways to jumpstart an economic recovery, several members of Congress are renewing a push for a massive green stimulus package. Government spending on specific energy projects may benefit a handful of companies, but it is no recipe for sustained economic viability. Instead, policymakers should implement broad-based, technology neutral reforms that unleash...

Drew Bond and John Hart acknowledge they don’t fit the stereotype of conservatives who embrace the virtues of fossil fuels, although they believe in an “all of the above” approach to energy policy. But Bond, who owns a solar business, and Hart, who runs a sustainable farm operation, also say they are like a lot...

Climate change is gearing up to be a political hot topic once again, with a flurry of new proposals expected before election season even as the COVID-19 pandemic batters the economy and puts in doubt the campaign calendar. This year’s debate comes with a twist: both sides of the aisle will be fighting to be...