It is perfectly possible that our next push will be defeated, or used as an opportunity to dismantle the progress we've already made.
"And my administration will continue to vigorously oppose efforts to weaken E.P.A.'s authority under the Clean Air Act or dismantle the progress we have made," he said.
We have made great environmental gains during the past generation and are seeing attempts to dismantle that progress.
How can we ignore the peril that our communities face daily -- in the form of police brutality, failing schools, community violence, economic injustice and so much more -- while at the same time not allowing it to derail or dismantle the progress and promise we have toiled so hard to build and battle for?
Fortunately, the historic barriers to getting distributed renewable power to scale in poor villages and neighborhoods are rapidly being dismantled by progress in technology, finance, and business models.
Clinton said Republicans were dismantling the progress made by the civil rights movement, and blasted Alabama governor Robert Bentley for closing driver's license offices in 31 counties where most residents are African American.
Forty per cent of black veterans suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, compared with 20% of white veterans, and in the early 1970s Richard Nixon's policy of "benign neglect" was dismantling the progress of the civil rights movement.
If we choose, we can revert to persecution, blame and despair, jettisoning proven science, dismantling the progress of the last 35 years, and driving up new infections and deaths.
Look for career experts in air and water quality, toxic waste cleanup, regulation of toxic chemical production, and much else to resign rather than dismantle decades of progress or be re-assigned to the EPA office in Nome, Alaska.
Manchester's chief constable Ian Hopkins confirmed the investigation had made "significant progress" dismantling the network behind Britain's worst terror attack in more than a decade.
