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.
China Widens Its Clean Energy Lead
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Florida to Close Alligator Alcatraz, News Report Says
By Amy Green
Trump Administration Kills Rule Putting Conservation of Public Lands on Equal Footing With Resource Extraction
By Wyatt Myskow
Trump’s EPA Seeks Looser Construction Rules for Gas Plants, Data Centers and Factories
By Charles Paullin
New Jersey Leads the Nation in Superfund Sites as EPA Funding Cuts and Staff Reductions Threaten Cleanups
By Anna Mattson
Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem
By Georgina Gustin
A Massive, Trump-Backed Power Plant May Be Too Big to Succeed
By Dan Gearino
Trump Pushes ‘Peace Pipelines’ to Boost Exports of Climate-Busting LNG to Europe
By Dennis Pillion
The Trump Administration Tried to Stop the National EV Charging Program. It Has Kept Rolling Along Anyway.
By Dan Gearino
In Florida, Alligator Alcatraz Remains Open Among Sacred Miccosukee Lands
By Amy Green
NOAA Defends Cuts to Research and Climate Monitoring at Budget Hearing
By Gabriel Matias Castilho
Trump Takes a ‘Wrecking Ball’ to Independent Scientific Advisory Board
By Kiley Bense
Trump’s Environmental Cuts Further Marginalize Vulnerable Communities
By Amy Green
Could Changes to the U.S. Forest Service Erase a Century of Historical Documents?
By Keerti Gopal
Fossil-Fuel Funded GOP Leaders Claim a Renowned Scientific Institution Has ‘Potential Conflicts of Interest’
By Liza Gross
A Bill to Gut Endangered Species Protections Faced a Major Setback This Week
By Kiley Price
Cuts to Renewable Energy Research in Energy Department’s Budget Irk Senate Democrats
By Gabriel Matias Castilho
