2015 is the year when sustainable businesses in the U.S. will have to fight to protect legislative gains on issues like climate change, the American Sustainable Business Council’s Zach Bernstein argued in a year-end commentary on GreenBiz.
“The good news [in 2014] included the Obama administration’s expanding rules on emissions from power plants, providing a real path forward on tackling climate change,” Bernstein writes. “It also included clarifications of clean water protections and success in preserving a program that supports safer products and chemicals.”
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Bernstein adds that “if 2015 is the year that businesses decide to show up in public policy fights and speak on why these actions are good for the economy, it could be the year that the discussion on what’s good for business really starts to shift.” But “unless business owners become stronger advocates for these policies, they surely will be dismantled by opposition pressure from the entrenched lobbies that claim to speak for business.”
