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Leah Wiste is the Executive Director of Michigan Interfaith Power & Light. She lives in Detroit.
Responding to President Biden’s announcement earlier this month of new tailpipe emissions standards, Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee offered a strange kind of praise: “This is sort of a Goldilocks goal… Not too much, not too little. It’s just right.” But Biden and Kildee are both living in a fairytale if they think these milquetoast standards […]
