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.
Feds Seek Access to Three Texas State Parks for Border Wall
By Martha Pskowski
After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling
By James Bruggers
The Trump Administration’s New Biofuels Targets Threaten Carbon-Rich Rainforests
By Georgina Gustin
Blasting Begins For Border Wall On Cherished New Mexico Mountain
By Martha Pskowski
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles
By Kiley Price
Scientists Discover a New Branch of Life in the Deep Sea
By Johnny Sturgeon
As Prices Soar, EPA Greenlights Higher Ethanol Blends in Gasoline
By Georgina Gustin
White House’s ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Wartime Mandate Meets Volatile Market Reality
By Katie Surma
USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests
By Zoë Rom
Border Communities Remain in the Dark About Federal Government’s Billion-Dollar Buoy Project
By Martha Pskowski
Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’
By Nathaniel Eisen
How the Iran War Reveals the Extent of Fossil Fuel Propaganda
By Lee Hedgepeth
Trump Deal for a $33B Gas Megaplant in Ohio Faces Huge Hurdles
By Kathiann M. Kowalski, Canary Media
Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling
By Nicholas Kusnetz
A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights
By Liza Gross
The Planet Is Overheating, But You Might Not Know It From the News
Kate Yoder, Grist
After Trump’s Interior Secretary Transferred Thousands of Staff to His Office, Chaos Followed, Former Workers Say
By Jake Bolster, Peter Aldhous
