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President Joe Biden may have just had one of the most productive weeks of his presidency, although its not clear how many Americans noticed or how many grasp what it says about the stakes of the November election.

In the span of less than five days, the Biden administration issued more than a half-dozen major regulations with the potential to affect many millions of Americans and, arguably, the future of the planet as well.

None of these announcements came as a surprise. All of the new regulations are final versions of rules that have been in the works for years. The impetus for rolling them out this week is the calendar and a law called the Congressional Review Act , which gives Congress a few months time to rescind new rules the White House implements.

By issuing these new rules now, the Biden administration is protecting them from the Congress that takes office in January 2025 i.e., after the next election, when Republicans hostile to these regulations might gain control of both chambers.

But finalizing the rules now is still no guarantee they will stay on the books. If Donald Trump becomes president, he could issue new regulations that reverse Bidens. The process would take some time, but it would be well within his powers. Biden did the same to many of Trumps regulations upon taking office, just as Trump once did to Barack Obamas.

Trump could also resume his project of packing the courts with conservatives on a mission to shrink the regulatory state. As it is, several of Bidens new rules might not survive scrutiny from the Supreme Court, where a (now) 6-to-3 conservative majority has been hacking away at the executive branchs leeway to make rules on everything from pollution to consumer safety. In a federal judiciary with even more Trump appointees, the rules would face even steeper odds.

All of which means the future of these new regulations depends on who wins the presidential election. But thats not the only reason they should be part of voters calculus come November.

The new rules also say a lot about Bidens priorities about the problems facing the American public, and how he thinks the federal government can help solve them. A second Biden term would presumably mean still more rules like the ones the administration announced this week.

Is that a good thing? A bad thing? Somewhere in between?

The answer depends on what you think about regulation in general, as well these new rules in particular. And its quite a list:

On Monday, the administration required nursing homes to meet new staffing standards . It also expanded health record privacy rules so they protect information about abortion .

On Tuesday, the administration made millions of new workers eligible for overtime pay and, separately, gave retirees new protections from predatory investment advice.

On Wednesday, the administration forced airlines to start issuing refunds for flight cancellations and long delays .

On Thursday, the administration announced new limits on power plant emissions and raised the energy efficiency standards for new homes . It also issued stronger nutrition requirements for the meals kids get at public schools.

And then on Friday, the administration prohibited health care providers from discriminating against LGBTQ+ patients , effectively reinstating a rule Trump had rescinded.

Energys impact on the planet and your bills at home

The power plant emission rules are among the most far-reaching, because they could play such a crucial role in efforts to slow global warming. As HuffPosts Alexander Kaufman explains in his analysis, the new rules are designed to work in tandem with green energy subsidies from the Inflation Reduction Act, the sweeping climate law that Democrats passed and Biden signed in 2022:

Paired with the billions of dollars in carrots for manufacturing, building and buying modern energy equipment that came with President Joe Bidens landmark climate-spending laws, the rules chart a path for the U.S. to avoid nearly 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047. Thats equal to taking 328 million gasoline-fueled cars off the road or a full year of emissions from the U.S. electric power sector today.

The emission limits are part of a broader package that include rules streamlining the permitting process for transmission lines, reducing some of the red tape thats made it difficult to build the grid infrastructure to increase the use of renewable energy.

The final version includes some concessions to utilities and other traditional opponents of emission regulations. Among other things, the emission rules apply to new natural gas plants but not to existing ones, following objections from utilities. But that doesnt mean the critics are happy. Republicans and their allies have denounced the rules as job-killers, with officials from West Virginia, one of the nations top coal-producing states, leading the charge and promising lawsuits too.

We will be challenging this rule, vowed West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.