How Abrupt U-Turns Are Defining U.S. Environmental Regulations

The Biden administration’s move on Thursday to strictly limit pollution from coal-burning power plants is a major policy shift. But in many ways it’s one more hairpin turn in a zigzag approach to environmental regulation in the United States, a pattern that has grown more extreme as the political landscape has become more polarized.Nearly a decade ago, President Barack Obama was the Democrat who tried to force…