Climate politics has taken a stealthy turn on energy, according to a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Having failed to win control over greenhouse gases through cap-and-trade legislation, says Kenneth P. Green, the movement is remarketing itself as a campaign for national clean energy standards. Green calls the push "a bad idea." In an article in AEI's The American, he calls clean energy standards: • Hidden energy taxes. Energy that's "clean" to environmentalists is more expensive than the conventional kind. "It is a particularly bad idea to overprice energy when our economy is barely moving," Green says. • Hidden subsidies. They f...