The Chamber’s point is that for all the talk of embracing clean energy as an alternative to dirtier old energy sources, plenty of green angst is directed at precisely the things—like new transmission lines—that would bring clean energy closer to reality.

That’s true enough: Wind farms, transmission lines, natural-gas facilities and even solar plants have been scotched due to “not-in-my-backyard” concerns. But so have dozens of old coal-fired plants in recent years as environmentalists led by the Sierra Club have campaigned against all manner of coal pollution.

The Chamber’s chapter on “green tape” opposition to coal? “Coming soon.”

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