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.
The Revised ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Still Contains a Poison Pill. A Tax Expert Explains
By Dan Gearino
Severe Weather, Uncertain Funding: What’s It Like to be a Local Emergency Manager These Days?
By Alexia Underwood
Huge Public Land Sale Stripped from Senate Bill—For Now—But Assault on Federal Land Protections Continues
By Wyatt Myskow
Ground Source Heat Pump Manufacturers Urge Senators to Preserve Geothermal Tax Credits
By Phil McKenna
USGS Touts Potential Oil and Gas Resources Beneath Public Lands in Updated Survey
By Jake Bolster
Global Climate Talks Resumed This Week in Germany, For the First Time in 30 Years Without the United States
By Bob Berwyn
EPA Grants Were Set to Address Health Risks on the Hopi and Navajo Reservations, Until the Trump Administration Cut Them
By Wyatt Myskow
In a Deep Red State, a Mining Regulator Is Wary of Possible Trump Cuts to Its Budget
By Lee Hedgepeth
Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, Has Been a Failure for the Climate, a New Report Claims
By Georgina Gustin
California Sues Trump Administration Over Right to Clean Air
By Liza Gross
Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035
By Marianne Lavelle
Tax Cuts in the “Big Beautiful Bill” Could Kill Solar Power Progress
By Carrie Klein
Department of Justice Gives Trump Go-Ahead to Eliminate National Monuments
By Wyatt Myskow
Virginia Vulnerable to Trump’s Proposed Cuts in Emergency Management and Disaster Relief
By Charles Paullin
Across the Country, Locals Rally to Protect National Monuments Threatened by the Trump Administration
By Wyatt Myskow
Shine On: Illinois Hopes to Continue Solar Boom Despite Federal Headwinds
By Douglas J. Guth
Rockaway is a New York Coastal Community Trying to Fight Erosion–and Then EPA Cancelled Funding
By Lauren Dalban
