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California wants nation to start pondering climate lockdowns

By Zachary Faria
Published July 21, 2023 6:19pm ET
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California wants nation to start pondering climate lockdowns
In this photo taken Monday, May 7, 2018, solar panels are seen on the rooftop on a home in a new housing project in Sacramento, Calif. The California Energy Commission will take up a proposal, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 , to require solar panels on new residential homes and low-rise apartment buildings up to three starting in 2020. | (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

You may correctly see California’s regular blackouts as a failure of environmentalist energy policy, but some climate-obsessed liberals see them differently. They see a whole new strategy to “save” the planet: climate lockdowns.

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