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The sun rises over power lines along a smokey horizon during the Saddleridge Fire in Newhall, Calif., on Oct. 11, 2019. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is a senior fellow on environmental policy at The Heartland Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois.