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Gavin Newsom’s Hobson’s Choice

by Andy Caldwell

Feb 22, 2026
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The very liberal Washington Post had this to say in a recent editorial:

“Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. It’s about time.

“Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1963 to regulate local pollution around the country, and regulators did that for decades. Then, in 2009, the EPA …

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