Mitch McConnell, powerful  Senate majority leader and fearless Washington brawler, ran out of his D.C. senate office in a total panic when a group of rosy cheeked school children from his home state of Kentucky showed up to ask him about climate change and the Green New Deal. The thirty or so elementary school children were visibly animated,…

When congresswoman, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, rolled out the Green New Deal, they made a bold proposal to transform the U.S. economy over the next few decades by promoting renewable energy technology and industry, energy efficiency in new and existing buildings, an infrastructure bill that addresses climate change,…