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.
Trump’s Pick to Head NOAA Faces Senators in the Wake of Multiple Weather-Stoked Disasters
By Georgina Gustin
Trump Move to Increase Coal Mining in the Powder River Basin Will Worsen Climate Change, Experts Warn
By Jake Bolster
Trump Issues Executive Order Targeting ‘Unreliable’ Clean Energy Options
By Dan Gearino
Trump Pollution Exemptions Would Shield Lawbreakers, Endanger Millions
By Shelby Jouppi
New Handbook Aims to Protect Scientists From Autocratic Threats
By Bob Berwyn
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Set to Slash Through U.S. Climate and Justice Drive
By Marianne Lavelle, Aidan Hughes, Amy Green, Arcelia Martin, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow
Trump’s Legislation Will Constrict the Growth of Texas’ Clean Energy Industry and its Power Grid
By Arcelia Martin
Will the Trump Administration Save Workers from Preventable Overheating Deaths?
By Liza Gross
EPA Employees Called on the Agency to Stop Undermining Public Health. The Trump Administration Put Them on Leave
By Lisa Sorg, Aman Azhar
Violating California Residents’ Right to Water
By Liza Gross
In Florida’s Fragile Everglades, Trump Praises ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
By Amy Green
Trump Administration Acts to ‘Severely Weaken’ a Key Environmental Law
By Kiley Bense, Wyatt Myskow
On Senate Floor, Tillis Offered Inside Look Into the Lobbying Against Clean Energy
By Marianne Lavelle
In Trump’s Megabill, a Clean Energy Phase Out and a Big, Beautiful Tax Break for Met Coal Exporters
By Lee Hedgepeth, Marianne Lavelle
Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns
By Martha Pskowski
An Important Archive of Congressionally-Mandated Climate Change Reports Just Went Dark
By Lauren Dalban
National Science Foundation to Leave Virginia Headquarters as HUD Moves Out of DC
By Charles Paullin
