DEALS ARE CUT, SPENDING UP, EMISSIONS DOWN, LOBBYISTS AND BUREAUCRATS TO THE FORE

Climate change recently was pushed to the back burner by a host of more immediate concerns – gas prices, inflation, recession, crime, illegal immigration – and by a realization that the geopolitical and economic settlement following WW II is in tatters. But climate policy is once again a hot topic in the United States, and by extension, in other countries.