Climate Policy Retrenchment
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Climate governance is facing recurring reversals, delays, legal challenges, and affordability-driven pushback at federal, state, and local levels. The issue centers on how durable climate policy remains when costs, political polarization, and institutional authority are contested.
Policy durability affects investment certainty, emissions trajectories, regulatory compliance, and public trust. Because decarbonization depends on long-lived infrastructure and consistent incentives, rollback risk is a structural issue rather than a temporary political fight.
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Policy, Regulation & Governance, Politics, Media & Public Discourse, Mitigation: Energy Transition, Economics & Finance
Keywords
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