The twin pillars of the administration’s environmental policy have collapsed, but the Democratic platform is calling for a doubling down on that policy of regulation and subsidization in order to achieve “climate justice” and transform America into a “clean energy superstar”. Nothing less. The first pillar of the present and proposed future policy was crafted in Paris, at a conference in which some 200 nations signed pledges to reduce their carbon emissions or face, well, naming and shaming. No enforcement mechanism could be invented since President Obama would not dare ask the Senate to concur and elevate the unenforceable deal to treaty status. Key to the entire transaction was China’s promise to begin reducing the increase in its emissions at some date far down the road. Without that agreement from the world’s largest polluter, few if any other countries would have bothered to come to Paris, much less sign on the dotted line.