By Elise N. Zoli, Peter Mostow, Todd Glass, Scott Zimmermann, Brady Berg, Robert G. O’Connor, Devon Wilson, Elizabeth Butscher, Claire Yerman, and Max Learner
The U.S. is a textbook innovation economy. Exceptional dynamism—intellectual and financial—has driven the country’s sustainability sector, and with it domestic and global economic development. The current industrial revolution, unlike the original one, is not simply a race to extract resources; it requires the achievement of global prosperity in the face of ecological limits. As the groundwork for this revolution is laid, U.S. successes should be lauded, and U.S. setbacks addressed without alarmism.
Here, we assess one such setback—the United States Supreme Court’s most recent climate decision (West Virginia v. EPA, issued June 30, 2022)….
