After voters soundly rejected it, electing Trump, whats next for the radical climate agenda?

Donald Trump’s resounding election victory marks not only the Obama-Biden era’s end but the beginning of the end of the radical climate agenda.After all, one candidate promised to “drill, baby, drill” while the other had called climate change an “existential threat to who we are as a species.”Voters had a clear choice, and they chose accordingly.The climate movement’s future is cloudy at best.The incoming Trump administration is promising government efficiency and accountability and fiscal restraint.No policies are more wasteful with worse results than green policies.Consider the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden finally admitted is “the most significant climate-change law ever” — even confessing, “We should have named it what it was.”Where Kamala Harris at the presidential debate trumpeted the $1 trillion investment in the green economy, voters saw the sharp spike in electricity and food prices.Where Harris boasted of investing in electric vehicles, with companies like Stellantis receiving more than $1 billion in federal grants, voters saw that same Stellantis closing plants in Michigan and Arizona.And when Americans were told there actually isn’t an electric-vehicle mandate even as the Biden-Harris administration implemented mandates forcing manufacturers to transition to electric, voters saw through the phony doublespeak.Democrats and their climate-change agenda were both overwhelming rejected by the voters, and as perennial political forces, they need new messages and messengers.The question is: Which way do they go?One direction is the Josh Shapiro way.

Once on the short list for Harris’ vice-presidential pick, the Pennsylvania governor has moderated considerably, especially on energy.Keystone State workers felt particularly targeted by the Biden administration’s war on energy with punitive measures on coal and a nonsensical “pause” on natural-gas exports.Shapiro walked the line well, neither caving comp...