The U.S. legislative system has to cater to everyone's interests. Which is not bad per se, but when it comes to something like this, new environmental laws will always hollow out an entire industry. No matter what new enforcement they try to enact, there'll always be someone powerful lobbying against it.
Agree. Not limit to the energy policy. US politicians are more often doing serious but not quite visible damage to long term interests. Just most modern US citizen are not aware of. There are some exceptions like Taleb Nassim but the voices never go through main stream
