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.
EPA Administrator Defends Sweeping Grant Terminations Amid Legal Blowback
By Aman Azhar
Trump Administration Severs ‘Lifeline’ for Families Struggling to Pay Utility Bills
By Kiley Bense
National Park and Forest Service Staffing Levels Have Been Dramatically Reduced
By Dylan Baddour
Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders
By Marianne Lavelle, Lee Hedgepeth
Oak Flat is Sacred to Western Apache. The Trump Administration Intends to Approve a Plan to Destroy It
By Wyatt Myskow
As EPA Rolls Back Regulations for Large Industrial Polluters, It Finds a New Target: A Two-Person Geoengineering Startup
By Phil McKenna
Trump Administration Halts Construction on New York Offshore Wind Project
By Lauren Dalban
How the Trump Administration’s Interpretation of One Word—‘Harm’—Could Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
By Kiley Price, Wyatt Myskow
EV Sales Are Up in the US, But Tariffs Are a Storm Cloud for an Industry That Craves Stability
By Dan Gearino
Sen. Bernie Sanders Brings His Fighting Oligarchy Tour to Conservative Rural California Districts
By Liza Gross
More Than 60 Power Plants Exempted From Federal Mercury Limits
By Dan Gearino
Dominion Among Utilities Allowed Exemption for Coal Emissions From Trump’s EPA
By Charles Paullin
Trump Official Visits, Touts Alabama Coal Mine With Thousands of Federal Safety Violations
By Lee Hedgepeth
Environmental Groups Sue the Trump Administration to Restore Web Tools Critical for Gauging Climate and Pollution Impacts
By Georgina Gustin
Congressional Democrats Assail Trump’s Plans for Deep Cuts to Government Science
By Marianne Lavelle
New Trump Administration Directives to Repeal Environmental Regulations En Masse Make ‘No Sense,’ Legal Experts Say
By Kiley Bense
EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting
By Liza Gross
