The Trump administration is undermining government capacity, institutional partnerships, and community-based collaboration for clean energy, environmental justice, climate resilience, and core regulatory functions.
It is doing this through massive staff cuts in environmental and land management agencies, and by rescinding or freezing grants to states, cities, community groups, and businesses from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. It is undermining regulations and fast tracking oil and gas projects. It is purging “climate change” language from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. It is even undercutting the National Weather Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), essential for emergency warnings, climate resilience, and economic vitality.
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EPA to Stop Collecting Emissions Data from Polluters
by Maxine Joselow, New York Times, September 12, 2025
White House Order Agencies to Escalate Fight against Offshore Wind
by Maxine Joselow, Lisa Friedman, and Brad Plumer, New York Times, September 3, 2025
Trump, with Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate
by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, August 27, 2025
With Little Explanation, Trump Throws Wind Industry into Chaos
by Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman, New York Times, August 26, 2025
Environmental Groups Face ‘Generational’ Setbacks Under Trump
by David Gelles, Claire Brown, and Karen Zraick, New York Times, August 16, 2025
National Academies Will Review Endangerment Finding Science
by Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, August 7, 2025
EPA Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, July 22, 2025
What Trump’s Budget Cuts Could Mean for Disaster Preparedness
Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth, July 19, 2025, from Inside Climate News
Trump is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response
by Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselow, Coral Davenport, and Megan Mineiro, New York Times, June 13, 2025
by Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News, June 15, 2025
Rockaway is a New York Coastal Community Trying to Fight Erosion – Then the EPA Cancelled Funding
by Lauren Dalban, Inside Climate News, June 7, 2005
Alarmed by Trump Cuts, Scientists are Talking Science. For 100 Hours
by Christiana Kelso, New York Times, May 30, 2025
Documents Show EPA Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants
by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, May 24, 2025
House Republicans Have Passed a Bill to Gut the IRA. What Happened to All the Supposed Holdouts?
by Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News, May 22, 2025
After Disasters, AmeriCorps was Everywhere. What Happens When It’s Gone?
by Kate Yoder, Grist, May 15, 2025
Locals Oppose ‘Insane’ Plan to Sell 500,000 Acres of Public Lands for Housing in Nevada and Utah
by Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News, May 15, 2025
Renewable Energy is Booming in Texas. Republicans Want to Change That
by J. David Goodman, Brad Plumer, and Ivan Penn, New York Times, May 14, 2025
Trump Radically Remade the US Food System in Just 100 Days
by Ayurella Horm-Muller, Grist, May 2, 2025
In His First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment
by Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Marianne Lavelle, and Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News, April 30, 2025
All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed
by Brad Plumer and Rebecca Dzombak, New York Times, April 28, 2025
Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders
by Marianne Lavelle and Lee Hedgepeth, Inside Climate News, April 18, 2025
DOGE Cuts Agency that Organizes Community Service Programs
by Aishvarya Kavi, New York Times, April 17, 2025
Trump Cuts Likely to Curtail Study of Climate Change’s Health Effects
by Maggie Astor, New York Times, April 17, 2025
Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise
by Liza Gross, Inside Climate News, April 11, 2025
Trump’s New Way to Kill Regulations: Because I Say So
by Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman, New York Times, April 11, 2025
Science Silenced, Justice Denied: The Trump Administration’s Attack on NEJAC
by Kristie Ellickson, Union of Concerned Scientists, April 3, 2025.
Small New York Farms Suffer as Federal Funds Freeze
by Lauren Dalban, Inside Climate News, March 26, 2025.
What FEMA’s Demise Could Mean for Flood Insurance
by Leslie Kaufman for Green Daily, March 31, 2025.
How Lee Zeldin Went from Environmental Moderate to Dismantling the E.P.A.
by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, March 29, 2025.
Trump wants to wind down FEMA. Could states fill the gap?
by Jake Bittle, GRIST, March 27, 2025.
by Marianne Lavelle and Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News, March 12, 2025.
EPA Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose
by Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, March 12, 2025.
EPA Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, March 11, 2025.
Rollbacks Gut Environmental Justice Gains, Former EPA Official Says,
by Aman Azhar, Inside Climate News, March 10, 2025.
by Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News, March 6, 2025.
A Deadly Assault on Weather Reporting
Covering Climate Now, March 6, 2025.
US Coast Guard Academy Censors ‘Climate Change’ From Its Curriculum,
by Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, March 7, 2025.
Portland’s Urban Tree Plans May Face a Withering in Federal Funds
by Anna McNulty, Inside Climate News, March 4, 2025.
Climate and Environmental Justice Programs Stalled by Trump Freeze, Despite Court Orders
by Marianne Lavelle, Dylan Baddour, Lisa Sorg, Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News, February 16, 2025.
EPA under Trump Besieged by Mass Terminations, Axed Programs, Funding Cuts
by Dana Drugmand, Sierra Magazine. February 27, 2025.
‘Full on Fight Club’: How Trump is Crushing U.S. Climate Policy
by David Gelles, Lisa Friedman, and Brad Plumer, New York Times, March 2, 2025.
by Coco Liu, Bloomberg, March 4, 2025.
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