“Abundance” Lobby Uses Trendy Words to Hide Same Old Attacks on the Environment

One of the Trump administration’s top priorities has been its devastating , unilateral rollback of renewable energy projects and environmental regulations — and a corresponding, aggressive push for fossil fuel interests .

But to hear a growing chorus of “abundance” proponents tell it, the real obstacle to climate progress is environmental regulation itself.

In a disturbing trend, influential politicians and commentators are propagating the idea that U.S. environmental regulation is too stringent, which they blame for stalling worthwhile progress in all sorts of key realms, from housing to mass transit to renewable energy projects. Proponents of this worldview loosely refer to their agenda as “abundance,” which they say characterizes the techno-utopia we can build if we elim