How DC can better deal with climate change

Washington Post: As it is, solar power benefits from unfair government preferences that the council should consider repealing. The District requires utilities to derive 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Though such policies are supposed to encourage competition among renewables, solar power enjoys a "carve out' within the renewable mandate, guaranteeing a piece for that particular technology unless it proves extremely expensive. If the goal is to reduce emissions, policy should instead...

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