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February 9, 2019

Green New Deal's Plan For Planes, Trains, And Automobiles Won't Work

Adam Millsap

Assistant Director, L. Charles Hilton Jr. Center for the Study of Economic Prosperity and Individual Opportunity, Florida State University

Adam Millsap writes on the misguided efforts to eliminate air travel emissions as described in the Green New Deal.

Read it at Forbes.

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