Dr. Donald van der Vaart, senior fellow at the John Locke Foundation and former secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, discusses his new column for TheHill.com. Its headline: “Environmentalists should lead the charge against electric vehicles.” Read it here: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/536296-environmentalists-should-lead-the-charge-against-electric-vehicles.
Locke’s Donald van der Vaart says environmentalists should lead charge against electric vehicles
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