In the ongoing negotiation between industrial ambition and environmental stewardship, the Trump administration's removal of Biden-era power plant emissions standards has offered manufacturers a moment of relief — but not resolution. Industry leaders, while welcoming the regulatory reversal, are candid that executive action alone is a fragile foundation, subject to reversal with each change of administration. What they seek is something older and more durable: a stable framework, written into law, that allows businesses to plan across decades rather than election cycles.