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Two New England Members of Congress Backing ‘Green New Deal’

U.S. Representative-elect Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) and Maine U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree are among 15 House Democrats supporting a so-called Green New Deal. Details are hazy – "Nobody knows" is how the environmentalist group Sierra Club describes the specifics — but an outline provided by chief instigator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez describes its goal as providing a "transition of the United States economy to become carbon neutral and to significantly draw down and capture greenhouse

U.S. Representative-elect Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) and Maine U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree are among 15 House Democrats supporting a so-called Green New Deal. Details are hazy – "Nobody knows" is how the environmentalist group Sierra Club describes the specifics — but an outline provided by chief instigator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez describes its goal as providing a "transition of the United States economy to become carbon neutral and to significantly draw down and capture greenhouse…