POLITICO calls it! ‘Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official’ – ‘We’ve lost the culture war on climate’ – Obama advisor: ‘The left strategy on climate needs to be rethought’

The Obama-era rule came out during a decade when governments around the world threw their weight behind blunting climate pollution through executive actions. Ricky Revesz, who was Biden’s regulatory czar, recalled the “great excitement” at the White House Blue Room reception just before Obama announced his power plant rule, known as the Clean Power Plan. It seemed a watershed moment. But it didn’t last.

“I thought that it was going to be a more linear path forward,” he said. “That linear path forward has not materialized. And that is disappointing.”

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Meanwhile, Congress has become harsher terrain for climate action.

In May, House Republicans voted to undo the incentives for electric cars and other clean energy technologies in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, the nation’s most significant effort to spur clean energy and curb climate change.

That same week, 35 House Democrats and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) crossed the aisle and voted to kill an EPA waiver that had allowed California to set more stringent tailpipe pollution standards for vehicles to deal with its historically smoggy skies. California was planning to use that waiver to end sales of internal combustion engine vehicles in 2035, a rule 10 other states and the District of Columbia had planned to follow.