Trump 2.0
The Reckoning
From his first moments in office, President Donald Trump declared a national energy emergency, unleashed oil and gas drilling, targeted climate enforcement, excised environmental justice protections and embarked upon mass layoffs at the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of the Interior and more. Some in the environmental community called it a “shock and awe” approach. Inside Climate News got to work, chronicling the rollbacks, the cutbacks, the policy revisions and, as ever, the gathering climate crisis.
How Proposed Changes to the Endangered Species Act Could Further Threaten the Country’s Imperiled Species
By Kiley Price
Trump’s EPA Focus: Delay, Rescind, Dismantle Environmental and Health Protections
By Liza Gross
SPEED Act Passes in House Despite Changes That Threaten Clean Power Projects
By Aidan Hughes, Carl David Goette-Luciak
Trump’s Energy Secretary Orders a Washington State Coal Plant to Remain Open
By Blaine Harden
NCAR, Major Climate Research Center, Targeted for Closure in Trump Dispute with Colorado
By Marianne Lavelle
Gas Exports Are Driving Up Americans’ Energy Bills, Report Says
By Kiley Bense
Hope—and Many Fears—Follow in the Wake of Trump’s Plan to Transform Wildland Firefighting
By Kiley Price
Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing
By Anika Jane Beamer
Virginia Regulators Weigh Expanded Use of Data Center’s Polluting Generators
By Charles Paullin
White House Abruptly Cancels Meeting on FEMA’s Future After Leaked Report Revealed Plan to Gut the Agency
By Carl David Goette-Luciak
A New Report Describes Deep Environmental Cuts, State by State
By Lisa Sorg
As NOAA Funding Lags, a Critical Ocean Weather System Nears a Breaking Point
By Ryan Krugman
The Big Bet to Fix the Rio Grande Sewage Problem
By Martha Pskowski, photos by Brenda Bazán
Global Scientists Anticipate Less Reliance on the US in Future Carbon Monitoring
By Marianne Lavelle
Trump Administration’s Threats to Shrink or Eliminate National Monuments Could Endanger Drinking Water for Millions
By Wyatt Myskow
EV Sales Are in the Tank. So What Happens Next?
By Dan Gearino
Trump Administration Terminates Fuel Economy Standards
By Arcelia Martin
