In the latest installment of our ongoing series on the opening months of Trump’s second term, climate journalist Jake Bittle reflects on how flimsy the Biden administration’s energy policy has turned out to be, the obstacles to robust climate action that any future Democratic administration will confront, and why Trump “has likely already altered expectations for what life on earth will look like at the end of this century.”
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A Disaster Big Enough | Climate Policy on Life Support
JAKE BITTLE
How might a future Democratic administration, one that will inherit a decimated federal government, design a climate policy that will have more sticking power than Biden’s did — and one ambitious enough to make up for lost time?