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A year ago, the transportation manager of Northshore School District, outside of Seattle, wrote to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin pleading with him to release frozen funding she was owed for new school buses. “We need your assistance to complete these projects and lift the financial burdens school districts are facing due to the delay in …

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Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge: More BS on Electricity Prices

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In his State of the Union address, President Trump announced a new “ratepayer protection pledge” from technology companies.

Last night, in his State of the Union address, President Trump announced a new “ratepayer protection pledge” from technology companies as his latest effort to respond to rising electricity prices across the country.  In his brief remarks on the pledge, the President said that it “obligated” the technology companies to provide for their own power, …

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