In a sweeping act of regulatory reversal, the Trump administration's EPA has eliminated greenhouse gas emission standards for coal and natural gas power plants — undoing one of the most consequential climate protections of the Obama-Biden era. The decision is not a trimming of limits but their outright removal, signaling a fundamental reorientation of how the federal government understands its role in governing the atmosphere. What is at stake is not merely policy, but the longer arc of a nation's relationship with its own industrial emissions — and the question of who bears responsibility for