This is a leadership moment for Congress and the White House.
Solar panels at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Flatirons Campus in Arvada, Colorado.
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In working to ban Russian oil imports by year’s end, the European Union (E.U.) is tightening its belt to put the squeeze on the Kremlin and its savage attacks on Ukraine.It’s a bold and substantive move.Russia is a petro-state that funds about 40 percent of its federal budget from oil and gas sales. E.U. nations get a quarter of their oil from Russia. They’ve paid more than $25 billion for Russian oil just since the invasion of Ukraine began.Cutting off that revenue stream is the right move—morally and strategically. It will reduce the E.U.’s financial support for Russia’s…