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.
As NOAA Cuts Continue, Ocean Researchers Worry About Monitoring Programs
By Bob Berwyn
Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise
By Liza Gross
Amid Questions of Loyalty to Trump, a Longtime Oil and Gas Advocate Withdraws as Nominee to Lead BLM
By Jake Bolster
Will US Tariffs Make World Leaders Value the Stability of Renewables?
By Dan Gearino
Trump’s Nominee for EPA’s Top Lawyer Advances Despite Scant Legal Qualifications
By Katie Surma
New Trump Orders Aim to Keep Coal Power Alive, Despite Climate and Economic Costs
By Marianne Lavelle
Tariffs Could Spike Rates in an Already Climate-Stressed Insurance Market
By Kiley Price
As Chemical Industry Seeks Exemption From Pollution Limits, Residents See Assault on Their Lives
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Protesters Across the Country Tell Trump and Musk: ‘Hands Off’ Our Country
By Liza Gross and Christine Spolar
The Trump Administration Issues Its Next Assault on the Nation’s Public Forests
By Georgina Gustin
American Farmers and the USDA Had Finally Embraced Their Role in the Climate Crisis. Then Came the Federal Funding Freeze
By Georgina Gustin
How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt
By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino
Faith Leaders Push Back After EPA Head Disparages Climate Action as ‘Religion’
By James Bruggers
As Offshore Wind Struggles Under Trump, There’s Still Room for Progress
By Dan Gearino
Nearly Half of the Country’s Attorneys General Make Legal Effort to Restore FEMA Funds
By Arcelia Martin
Small New York Farms Suffer as Federal Funds Freeze
By Lauren Dalban
What 30 Years of Fighting for Environmental Justice Looks Like in One Community
By Bhabna Banerjee
