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.
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
Latest GOP Provisions in Budget Bill Seek to Crush Renewable Energy
By Bob Berwyn
A Class-Action Lawsuit Aims to Restore Climate and Environmental Grants
By Amy Green
The Danger of Losing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
Trump Joins the Opposition to Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act, Calling it ‘Burdensome’ and ‘Ideologically Motivated’
By Nina Sablan
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
