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


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Key Focus

  • "If the regulatory changes are just whiplash or snapback, it creates a level of uncertainty that makes it very hard to build a vibrant economy," said Marty Durbin, senior vice president for policy at the U.S. ...
  • Costas Gavriilidis, who teaches at the University of Stirling in Scotland, developed a U.S. Climate Policy Uncertainty Index charting the federal government's wild swings on climate policy. ...
  • Biden said that day, calling for a whole-of-government approach in which agencies across the federal government, from the U.S.D.A. ...
  • Momentum supporting factors

  • (climate,whole-of-government)
  • (climate,whiplash)
  • (climate,regulation)
  • (climate,economic)
  • (climate,unwinding)
  • Challenge supporting factors

  • (climate,trump,regulations)
  • (trump,regulations,emissions)
  • (climate,federal,regulations)
  • (climate,regulations)
  • (climate,trump,targets)
  • (climate,trump,rollback)
  • (climate,trump,republican)
  • (climate,trump,pointedly)
  • (climate,trump,multitudes)
  • (regulations,emissions)
  • (regulations,capital)
  • (trump,capital)
  • (trump,regulations,capital)
  • (regulations,steve_cicala)
  • (trump,regulations,steve_cicala)
  • Work-in-progress supporting factors

  • (climate,government,policy)
  • (climate,government,federal)
  • (climate,increase)
  • (climate,policy,increase)
  • (trump,increase)
  • (climate,policy,whiplash)
  • (climate,federal,university)
  • (climate,government,university)
  • (climate,policy,university)
  • (climate,policy,unemployment)
  • (climate,federal,stirling)
  • (climate,government,stirling)
  • (climate,policy,stirling)
  • (climate,policy,snapback)
  • (climate,policy,shoots)

  • Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report23.69 1.22 75.09

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
    (1) (climate,government,policy)100.00
    (2) (climate,government,federal)92.45
    (3) (climate,increase)84.34
    (4) (climate,policy,increase)83.77
    (5) (trump,increase)83.58
    (6) (climate,policy,whiplash)81.70
    (7) (climate,federal,university)80.38
    (8) (climate,government,university)78.68
    (9) (climate,policy,university)76.60
    (10) (climate,policy,unemployment)74.91
    (11) (climate,federal,stirling)73.40
    (12) (climate,government,stirling)71.70
    (13) (climate,whiplash)69.81
    (14) (climate,policy,stirling)69.81
    (15) (climate,policy,snapback)68.11
    (16) (climate,policy,shoots)66.42
    (17) (climate,policy,risk)64.72
    (18) (climate,policy,regulatory)63.02
    (19) (climate,whole-of-government)62.45
    (20) (climate,government,president)61.13
    (21) (climate,regulation)60.00
    (22) (climate,policy,president)59.43
    (23) (climate,federal,policy_uncertainty_index)57.17
    (24) (climate,trump,regulations)56.98
    (25) (climate,government,policy_uncertainty_index)56.04
    (26) (climate,policy,policy_uncertainty_index)54.34
    (27) (climate,federal,policy)52.08
    (28) (climate,economic)50.38
    (29) (trump,regulations,emissions)47.55
    (30) (climate,government,whole-of-government)42.45
    (31) (climate,government,whiplash)40.75
    (32) (climate,government,snapback)39.25
    (33) (climate,government,regulatory)37.55
    (34) (climate,government,regulation)35.85
    (35) (climate,federal,whole-of-government)33.02
    (36) (climate,federal,regulations)31.89
    (37) (trump,fuels)31.70
    (38) (trump,greenhouse)31.13
    (39) (climate,federal,gavriilidis)31.13
    (40) (trump,oil,greenhouse)30.75
    (41) (climate,regulations)29.25
    (42) (climate,trump,whole-of-government)27.92
    (43) (climate,trump,unwinding)27.74
    (44) (climate,trump,targets)27.36
    (45) (climate,trump,rollback)27.17
    (46) (trump,oil,gas)26.98
    (47) (climate,trump,republican)26.98
    (48) (climate,trump,pointedly)26.79
    (49) (climate,trump,multitudes)26.60
    (50) (climate,trump,hoax)26.42
    (51) (climate,trump,global)26.23
    (52) (climate,trump,fuels)26.04
    (53) (regulations,emissions)25.66
    (54) (climate,unwinding)24.91
    (55) (climate,university)24.72
    (56) (regulations,capital)23.40
    (57) (trump,capital)23.02
    (58) (trump,regulations,capital)22.64
    (59) (regulations,steve_cicala)22.45
    (60) (trump,regulations,steve_cicala)21.89
    (61) (regulations,restored)21.89
    (62) (regulations,safety)21.70
    (63) (trump,coal,safety)21.32
    (64) (trump,emissions,safety)21.13
    (65) (trump,oil,safety)20.94
    (66) (trump,stop)20.75
    (67) (trump,regulations,safety)20.57
    (68) (trump,emissions,restored)20.00
    (69) (trump,oil,restored)19.81
    (70) (trump,regulations,restored)19.43
    (71) (regulations,regulation)19.25
    (72) (trump,regulations,regulation)18.68
    (73) (regulations,oil)18.49
    (74) (trump,emissions,oil)18.11
    (75) (trump,regulations,oil)17.36
    (76) (trump,regulations,national_bureau)17.17
    (77) (trump,regulations,industries)16.98
    (78) (trump,emissions,hoax)16.79
    (79) (trump,regulations,hoax)16.60
    (80) (trump,emissions,greenhouse)16.42
    (81) (trump,regulations,greenhouse)15.28
    (82) (trump,emissions,gas)14.34
    (83) (trump,gas)13.96
    (84) (trump,coal,emissions)13.02
    (85) (trump,oil,wyoming_stock_growers_association)12.45
    (86) (trump,oil,various)12.26
    (87) (trump,oil,stop)11.89
    (88) (trump,fossil)11.51
    (89) (trump,oil,sheep)11.32
    (90) (trump,oil,seeps)11.13
    (91) (trump,oil,rescinded)10.94
    (92) (trump,emissions,tailpipe)10.75
    (93) (trump,emissions,global)10.57
    (94) (trump,emissions,fuels)10.38
    (95) (trump,emissions,fossil)10.00
    (96) (trump,coal,stop)9.62
    (97) (trump,coal,regulations)9.06
    (98) (trump,coal,president_barack_obama)8.87
    (99) (trump,coal,oil)8.68
    (100) (trump,coal,greenhouse)8.11

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    Supporting narratives:

    Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

    • momentum - Back to HLA
      • It also pointedly sums up an overarching philosophy: "The Biden administration's climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding.". . Some economists have sought to measure the economic impacts of climate regulation whiplash ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,whole-of-government)
        • (climate,unwinding)

    • momentum - Back to HLA
      • It also pointedly sums up an overarching philosophy: "The Biden administration's climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding.". . Some economists have sought to measure the economic impacts of climate regulation whiplash. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,economic)
        • (climate,regulation)
        • (climate,whiplash)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Biden also ordered federal agencies to review and reinstate more than 100 environmental regulations that Mr. Trump had watered down or removed. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,federal,regulations)
        • Inferred entity relationships (7)
        • (climate,federal,gavriilidis) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,government) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,whole-of-government) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,stirling) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Biden also ordered federal agencies to review and reinstate more than 100 environmental regulations that Mr. Trump had watered down or removed.. . "We're going to combat climate change in a way we have not before," Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,regulations)
        • (climate,trump,regulations)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (climate,regulations) [inferred]
        • (climate,regulations,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump, who has called global warming "a hoax." He has promised to promote fossil fuels and destroy regulations designed to limit their emissions, which are dangerously heating the planet. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,regulations,emissions)
        • (climate,trump,regulations)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (emissions,regulations) [inferred]
        • (climate,regulations) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • A nearly 1,000-page "battle plan" for the first 180 days of a new Republican administration, written in part by former senior energy and environment officials from the former Trump administration, targets multitudes of environmental rules for rollback. It also pointedly sums up an overarching philosophy: "The Biden administration's climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,trump,targets)
        • (climate,trump,multitudes)
        • (climate,trump,pointedly)
        • (climate,trump,rollback)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • A nearly 1,000-page "battle plan" for the first 180 days of a new Republican administration, written in part by former senior energy and environment officials from the former Trump administration, targets multitudes of environmental rules for rollback ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,trump,republican)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • In the past four months, the Biden administration has strengthened or restored rules that Mr. Trump had deleted, including regulations to cut greenhouse emissions from cars and oil and gas wells; to limit the pollution of toxic coal ash; to protect the habitat of the sage grouse and other endangered species; and to tighten safety controls at chemical plants ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,regulations,oil)
        • (regulations,oil)
        • (regulations,emissions)
        • (trump,emissions,restored)
        • (trump,emissions,greenhouse)
        • (trump,oil,restored)
        • (trump,gas)
        • (trump,emissions,oil)
        • (regulations,restored)
        • (trump,greenhouse)
        • (trump,regulations,emissions)
        • (trump,regulations,restored)
        • (trump,emissions,gas)
        • (trump,regulations,greenhouse)
        • (trump,oil,gas)
        • (trump,oil,greenhouse)
        • Inferred entity relationships (10)
        • (emissions,regulations,trump) [inferred]
        • (oil,regulations) [inferred]
        • (regulations,restored,trump) [inferred]
        • (oil,regulations,trump) [inferred]
        • (greenhouse,trump) [inferred]
        • (oil,trump,various) [inferred]
        • (emissions,regulations) [inferred]
        • (regulations,restored) [inferred]
        • (oil,trump,wyoming_stock_growers_association) [inferred]
        • (gas,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Gavriilidis's index has remained at its highest levels.. . "All of these regulations are occurring in industries where capital is really important - capital to generate power, abate pollution, invest in a long pipeline of research and development," said Steve Cicala, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Project on the Economic Analysis of Regulation ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (regulations,capital)
        • (trump,capital)
        • (trump,regulations,industries)
        • (trump,regulations,capital)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (capital,regulations) [inferred]
        • (capital,regulations,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • "All of these regulations are occurring in industries where capital is really important - capital to generate power, abate pollution, invest in a long pipeline of research and development," said Steve Cicala, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Project on the Economic Analysis of Regulation ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (regulations,steve_cicala)
        • (trump,regulations,steve_cicala)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (regulations,steve_cicala,trump) [inferred]
        • (regulations,steve_cicala) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump had deleted, including regulations to cut greenhouse emissions from cars and oil and gas wells; to limit the pollution of toxic coal ash; to protect the habitat of the sage grouse and other endangered species; and to tighten safety controls at chemical plants. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,coal,safety)
        • (trump,oil,safety)
        • (regulations,safety)
        • (trump,emissions,safety)
        • (trump,regulations,safety)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (regulations,safety,trump) [inferred]
        • (regulations,safety) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Since the Trump presidency, Mr. Gavriilidis's index has remained at its highest levels.. . "All of these regulations are occurring in industries where capital is really important - capital to generate power, abate pollution, invest in a long pipeline of research and development," said Steve Cicala, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Project on the Economic Analysis of Regulation ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (regulations,regulation)
        • (trump,regulations,regulation)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (regulation,regulations,trump) [inferred]
        • (regulation,regulations) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • "All of these regulations are occurring in industries where capital is really important - capital to generate power, abate pollution, invest in a long pipeline of research and development," said Steve Cicala, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Project on the Economic Analysis of Regulation. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,regulations,national_bureau)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump, who has called global warming "a hoax." He has promised to promote fossil fuels and destroy regulations designed to limit their emissions, which are dangerously heating the planet ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,emissions,hoax)
        • (trump,emissions,global)
        • (trump,regulations,hoax)
        • (trump,emissions,fossil)
        • (trump,emissions,fuels)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (fuels,trump) [inferred]
        • (fossil,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Jim Magagna, a Wyoming sheep rancher and executive vice president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, said he had been buffeted by the wildly different policies from the various administrations toward protecting the sage grouse, a bird that nests in a habitat that stretches across 11 Western states and exists only in the continental U.S ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,oil,various)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (oil,trump,wyoming_stock_growers_association) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • . Last month, Mr. Biden reinstated and expanded the limits on tailpipe emissions, something Mr. Trump says he will reverse if he returns to office.. . But auto companies grudgingly say they want the rules to stay ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,emissions,tailpipe)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump had deleted, including regulations to cut greenhouse emissions from cars and oil and gas wells; to limit the pollution of toxic coal ash; to protect the habitat of the sage grouse and other endangered species; and to tighten safety controls at chemical plants ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,coal,regulations)
        • (trump,coal,gas)
        • (trump,coal,oil)
        • (trump,coal,greenhouse)
        • (trump,coal,emissions)
        • Inferred entity relationships (4)
        • (oil,trump,various) [inferred]
        • (oil,trump,wyoming_stock_growers_association) [inferred]
        • (gas,trump) [inferred]
        • (greenhouse,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Environmental Regulations. . The polarization of politics means that rules are imposed, gutted and restored with each election. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (regulations,restored)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (regulations,restored,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump, who has called global warming "a hoax." He has promised to promote fossil fuels and destroy regulations designed to limit their emissions, which are dangerously heating the planet.. . A nearly 1,000-page "battle plan" for the first 180 days of a new Republican administration, written in part by former senior energy and environment officials from the former Trump administration, targets multitudes of environmental rules for rollback ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (regulations,republican)
        • (regulations,emissions)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (emissions,regulations,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • A nearly 1,000-page "battle plan" for the first 180 days of a new Republican administration, written in part by former senior energy and environment officials from the former Trump administration, targets multitudes of environmental rules for rollback. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (regulations,targets)
        • (regulations,rollback)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • How Abrupt U-Turns Are Defining U.S. Environmental Regulations. . The polarization of politics means that rules are imposed, gutted and restored with each election. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (regulations,politics)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • His research shows that whenever the index shoots up to about 50 points, it creates an economic shock of such magnitude that it leads to a 1.5 percent decrease in industrial production, a 0.4 percent increase in unemployment, a 2 percent increase in commodity prices and a 0.4 percent increase in consumer prices, reflecting the fact that producers incorporate the risk of higher production costs associated with uncertain climate policy into their prices ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,policy,increase)
        • (climate,increase)
        • (climate,policy,shoots)
        • (climate,policy,unemployment)
        • Inferred entity relationships (12)
        • (climate,policy,shoots) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,risk) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,unemployment) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,increase) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,increase,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,regulatory) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • His research shows that whenever the index shoots up to about 50 points, it creates an economic shock of such magnitude that it leads to a 1.5 percent decrease in industrial production, a 0.4 percent increase in unemployment, a 2 percent increase in commodity prices and a 0.4 percent increase in consumer prices, reflecting the fact that producers incorporate the risk of higher production costs associated with uncertain climate policy into their prices. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,policy,risk)
        • (trump,increase)
        • Inferred entity relationships (9)
        • (climate,policy,shoots) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,unemployment) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,regulatory) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,snapback) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "If the regulatory changes are just whiplash or snapback, it creates a level of uncertainty that makes it very hard to build a vibrant economy," said Marty Durbin, senior vice president for policy at the U.S ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,policy,whiplash)
        • (climate,policy,regulatory)
        • (climate,policy,snapback)
        • Inferred entity relationships (10)
        • (climate,policy,shoots) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,risk) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,unemployment) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,regulatory) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Costas Gavriilidis, who teaches at the University of Stirling in Scotland, developed a U.S. Climate Policy Uncertainty Index charting the federal government's wild swings on climate policy ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,federal,university)
        • (climate,government,university)
        • (climate,policy,university)
        • (climate,government,stirling)
        • (climate,federal,stirling)
        • (climate,policy,stirling)
        • (climate,federal,gavriilidis)
        • Inferred entity relationships (28)
        • (climate,policy,shoots) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,risk) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulatory) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,whole-of-government) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulation) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,government) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,regulatory) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,gavriilidis) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,unemployment) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,whole-of-government) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,regulations) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "If the regulatory changes are just whiplash or snapback, it creates a level of uncertainty that makes it very hard to build a vibrant economy," said Marty Durbin, senior vice president for policy at the U.S. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,government,president)
        • (climate,government,policy)
        • (climate,policy,president)
        • Inferred entity relationships (19)
        • (climate,policy,shoots) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,risk) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,unemployment) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulatory) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,whole-of-government) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulation) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,regulatory) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Costas Gavriilidis, who teaches at the University of Stirling in Scotland, developed a U.S. Climate Policy Uncertainty Index charting the federal government's wild swings on climate policy. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,federal,policy)
        • (climate,government,federal)
        • (climate,policy,policy_uncertainty_index)
        • (climate,federal,policy_uncertainty_index)
        • (climate,government,policy)
        • (climate,government,policy_uncertainty_index)
        • Inferred entity relationships (27)
        • (climate,policy,shoots) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,risk) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulatory) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,whole-of-government) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulation) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,government) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,regulatory) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,gavriilidis) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,unemployment) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,whole-of-government) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,policy,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,regulations) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Biden said that day, calling for a whole-of-government approach in which agencies across the federal government, from the U.S.D.A. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,government,federal)
        • (climate,government,whole-of-government)
        • Inferred entity relationships (16)
        • (climate,federal,gavriilidis) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulatory) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,whole-of-government) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulation) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,regulations) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,university) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • If there is anything that companies like less than government regulation, it is an unstable business climate.. . "If the regulatory changes are just whiplash or snapback, it creates a level of uncertainty that makes it very hard to build a vibrant economy," said Marty Durbin, senior vice president for policy at the U.S ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,government,whiplash)
        • (climate,regulation)
        • (climate,government,regulatory)
        • (climate,government,snapback)
        • (climate,government,regulation)
        • (climate,whiplash)
        • Inferred entity relationships (10)
        • (climate,government,president) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,whiplash) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulatory) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,stirling) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,snapback) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,whole-of-government) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,regulation) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,government,university) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "We're going to combat climate change in a way we have not before," Mr. Biden said that day, calling for a whole-of-government approach in which agencies across the federal government, from the U.S.D.A. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,federal,whole-of-government)
        • (climate,whole-of-government)
        • Inferred entity relationships (7)
        • (climate,federal,gavriilidis) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy_uncertainty_index) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,policy) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,government) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,university) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,regulations) [inferred]
        • (climate,federal,stirling) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • It also pointedly sums up an overarching philosophy: "The Biden administration's climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding.". ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,trump,whole-of-government)
        • (climate,trump,unwinding)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (climate,trump,whole-of-government) [inferred]
        • (climate,trump,unwinding) [inferred]

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      • The escalation of climate change as a defining crisis of the century has made it a highly visible target for Mr. Trump, who has called global warming "a hoax." He has promised to promote fossil fuels and destroy regulations designed to limit their emissions, which are dangerously heating the planet ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,fuels)
        • (climate,trump,hoax)
        • (climate,trump,global)
        • (climate,trump,fuels)
        • (trump,fossil)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (fuels,trump) [inferred]

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      • joined, left, and then rejoined the Paris climate agreement in just over five years.. . His research shows that whenever the index shoots up to about 50 points, it creates an economic shock of such magnitude that it leads to a 1.5 percent decrease in industrial production, a 0.4 percent increase in unemployment, a 2 percent increase in commodity prices and a 0.4 percent increase in consumer prices, reflecting the fact that producers incorporate the risk of higher production costs associated with uncertain climate policy into their prices ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,economic)

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      • . Costas Gavriilidis, who teaches at the University of Stirling in Scotland, developed a U.S. Climate Policy Uncertainty Index charting the federal government's wild swings on climate policy ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (climate,university)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • After the Obama administration required oil companies to detect and stop leaks of methane, a greenhouse gas that often seeps from pipes and drilling sites, major companies like BP, Shell and Exxon Mobil asked Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,greenhouse)
        • (trump,oil,stop)
        • (trump,stop)
        • (trump,oil,gas)
        • (trump,oil,greenhouse)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (oil,trump,various) [inferred]
        • (oil,trump,wyoming_stock_growers_association) [inferred]
        • (stop,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Now that rule, too, is expected to be targeted if there is another Trump administration - even though oil executives say they want it to remain.. . Jim Magagna, a Wyoming sheep rancher and executive vice president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, said he had been buffeted by the wildly different policies from the various administrations toward protecting the sage grouse, a bird that nests in a habitat that stretches across 11 Western states and exists only in the continental U.S ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,oil,wyoming_stock_growers_association)
        • (trump,oil,sheep)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (oil,trump,various) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • After the Obama administration required oil companies to detect and stop leaks of methane, a greenhouse gas that often seeps from pipes and drilling sites, major companies like BP, Shell and Exxon Mobil asked Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,oil,seeps)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • On that day, he rescinded the permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which Mr. Obama had rejected but Mr. Trump had later revived ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,oil,rescinded)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Nearly a decade ago, President Barack Obama was the Democrat who tried to force power plants to stop burning coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels. His Republican successor, Donald J. Trump, effectively reversed that plan ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,coal,dirtiest)
        • (trump,stop)
        • (trump,coal,stop)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (stop,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Nearly a decade ago, President Barack Obama was the Democrat who tried to force power plants to stop burning coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,coal,president_barack_obama)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Nearly a decade ago, President Barack Obama was the Democrat who tried to force power plants to stop burning coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels. His Republican successor, Donald J. Trump, effectively reversed that plan. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,coal,fuels)
        • (trump,coal,fossil)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (fuels,trump) [inferred]
        • (fossil,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Now President Biden is trying once more to put an end to carbon emissions from coal plants. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,coal,emissions)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Nearly a decade ago, President Barack Obama was the Democrat who tried to force power plants to stop burning coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels. His Republican successor, Donald J. Trump, effectively reversed that plan. Now President Biden is trying once more to put an end to carbon emissions from coal plants ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,fuels)
        • (trump,fossil)

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      • But auto companies grudgingly say they want the rules to stay. One major reason: Automakers are now designing the vehicles they will put in showrooms by 2028, said John Bozzella, president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents 42 car companies that produce nearly all of the new vehicles sold in the U.S ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (vehicles,auto,showrooms)
        • (vehicles,auto,automakers)
        • (vehicles,showrooms)
        • (vehicles,automakers)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (automakers,vehicles) [inferred]
        • (showrooms,vehicles) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • One major reason: Automakers are now designing the vehicles they will put in showrooms by 2028, said John Bozzella, president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents 42 car companies that produce nearly all of the new vehicles sold in the U.S ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (vehicles,auto,president)
        • (vehicles,auto,automotive_innovation)
        • (vehicles,automotive_innovation)
        • (vehicles,president)
        • (vehicles,auto,john_bozzella)
        • (vehicles,john_bozzella)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (automotive_innovation,vehicles) [inferred]
        • (president,vehicles) [inferred]
        • (john_bozzella,vehicles) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Manufacturing vehicles requires an upfront capital investment, and companies must decide this year how many gasoline, hybrid and all-electric cars and trucks to produce ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (vehicles,investment)
        • (vehicles,capital)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Manufacturing vehicles requires an upfront capital investment, and companies must decide this year how many gasoline, hybrid and all-electric cars and trucks to produce. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (vehicles,gasoline)
        • (vehicles,cars)
        • (vehicles,all-electric)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Last year, the company spent $500 million to convert a plant in Gray Court, S.C., so that it could build transmissions for internal combustion engines as well as for hybrids and all-electric vehicles. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (vehicles,all-electric)