The proposed rule will go up for public comment, and the agency will then take that feedback and come up with a final version. “We could find ourselves in a couple years with no legal tools to try and address climate change,” Sivas says. US climate policy is held up by duct tape and a dream. The Trump administration has made it very clear that it is going after climate policy in every way that it can. While top officials tend to acknowledge that climate change is real, there’s often a “but” followed by talking points from climate denial’s list of greatest hits.