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 US Dismantles Its Climate Policy, Other World Leaders Seek Solidarity
By Bob Berwyn
How Will Trump’s Effort to Revitalize Coal Play Out in the Nation’s Most Productive Coal Fields?
By Jake Bolster
Trump’s Latest USDA Cuts Undermine His Plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’
By Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist
Judge Asks Trump Administration for More Evidence That Funding Freeze Is Constitutional
By Amy Green
Nearly Half of Americans Are Breathing Unhealthy Air as Pollution Exposure Numbers Reach Decade High
By Keerti Gopal
EPA Continues to Dismantle Environmental Justice Office, Announces Plans to Terminate Nearly 300 Employees
By Georgina Gustin
Climate Leaders Warn About Potential Trump Action Against Environmental Groups
By Marianne Lavelle
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
