For today’s increasingly extreme eco-left, even Obama-era environmental policies are not acceptable and don’t go far enough. Last week, Power the Future told you how Vice President Joe Biden is considering rolling out a “more centrist” energy and environmental plan that could “seek to embrace energy sources like nuclear and fossil fuel options.” He would re-enter the Paris Climate Agreement and maintain Obama-era regulations. These Obama policies are already far to the left. But for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they are not extreme enough. On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez attacked Biden for even considering releasing a “middle ground” plan. “This is a dealbreaker. There is no ‘middle ground’…

Vice President Joe Biden’s energy record is not one to be particularly proud of. The Obama-Biden administration waged an all too successful “war on coal,” raising burdensome regulations, shutting down mines and putting people out of work. In fact, under the Obama-Biden administration, 83,000 coal jobs were lost. But might Biden be better than the other 2020 Democratic candidates running for president on energy issues? Nearly every single one of them has backed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. As Power the Future has explained, that “plan” would bankrupt America, throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work, decimate the energy…