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News: 2026
January 3. Lisa Friedman: The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine.A Top Official’s Husband Profited. Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show.
January 8. Union of Concerned Scientists: Trump Sinks to New Low by Announcing US Withdrawal from 66 International Organizations, Including UNFCCC and IPCC.
January 13. Kathy Mulvey: President Trump’s Imperial and Illegal Grab for Venezuelan Oil Is a Losing Bet.
January 13. Maxine Joselow & Lisa Friedman: E.P.A. Moves to Limit States’ Ability to Block Pipelines.
January 17. Rachel Cleetus: Authoritarian Trump Has Given Planet Earth a Horrible Year.
February 3. Bill Mckibben: How Climate Denial Greased Trump’s Ascent to Fibber-in-Chief: Where the GOP learned to lie as a matter of course is an interesting question, and as a long-time climate activist I’ve had a front row seat:It’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional.
February 9. Lisa Friedman & Maxine Joselow: Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation. A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
February 12. Lisa Friedman: Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change:The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
February 13. Melissa Goldin: A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding.
February 18. Lisa Friedman & Maxine Joselow: E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Mercury Rules for Coal Plants.
February 18. Maxine Joselow: As Trump Obliterates Climate Efforts, States Try to Fill the Gap. Across the country, Democratic-led states are accelerating their initiatives to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
February 20. Bill Mckibben: The E.P.A. Rescinds a Landmark Finding.
March 5. Max Bearak & Lisa Friedman: Not Just Oil: In Venezuela, U.S. Interior Secretary Pushes for Mining Access.
News: 2025
January 20. Union of Concerned Scientists: President Trump Ignores Science, Makes Disgraceful Decision to Withdraw US from Paris Agreement.
January 21. Union of Concerned Scientists: Trump Brings His Anti-Science, Destructive Agenda to White House on Day One.
January 23. Julie McNamara: Here Comes the Fossil Fuel Agenda.
February 11. Elizabeth Kolbert: The Second Trump Administration Takes Aim at the Climate: More than thirty actions and executive orders either boost fossil-fuel production or cripple programs that might reduce fossil-fuel use.
February 27. L. Delta Merner: Trump Blocked Federal Scientists from Attending Latest IPCC Meeting: What Now?
March 23. Elizabeth Kolbert: The E.P.A. vs. the Environment: With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again.
April 6. Heather Miller: Trump administration opens up over half of national forests for logging.
April 9. Bill Mckibben: Trump Keeps Declaring Fake Emergencies That Make Our Real Emergency Worse.
April 28. Union of Concerned Scientists: Authors for Forthcoming Sixth National Climate Assessment Disbanded by Trump Administration.
May 2. Alexandra Witze: Trump gutted two landmark environmental reports — can researchers save them?
June 9. Julie McNamara: With Proposed Budget Bill, House Crushes Clean Energy—And Risks Creating an Actual Energy Emergency.
June 11. Julie McNamara: Dark Day for Climate, Health as EPA Axes Power Plant Carbon Regs, Reopens Mercury Pollution Loopholes.
July 12. Elizabeth Kolbert: Flash Floods and Climate Policy: As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters.
July 31. Aidan Hughes: EPA Delays Compliance with Methane Rule.
August 4. Elizabeth Kolbert: The E.P.A.’s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases.
August 13. Carlos Javier Martinez: Trump Admin Uses Fossil Fuel Industry Deception Tactics to Undermine Climate Science.
August 15. Benjamin Thompson & Jeff Tollefson: Controversial climate report from Trump team galvanizes scientists into action.
August 26. Bill Mckibben: Green Eggs and Sun: The Administration’s irrational dislike of solar and wind energy imperils both the environment and the economy.
September 3. Bill Mckibben: Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced: International climate experts have extensively debunked the D.O.E.’s recent report, but will science win out?
September 5. Rachel Cleetus: A Resounding Rejection of the US DOE’s Sham “Climate Science” Report.
September 30. Kathy Mulvey: Who Wrote the Trump Administration’s Flawed Climate Report? Meet the Architects of Disinformation.
November 3. Nature: How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action. With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.
November 6. The New York Times: Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure: Nations were poised to approve the first fee on pollution from ships. That’s when the Trump administration began the threats.
December 2. Darya Minovi: Make America Polluted Again: Trump’s Deregulatory Blitz Will Harm Americans.
December 7. Kyle Ann Sebastian: Trump Administration Threatens to Dismantle Leading Climate and Weather Research Center.
December 9. Lana Cohen: Trump Administration Clean Air Act Exemptions Increase Toxic Air Pollution for Millions.
December 9. Bill Mckibben: A Low Point of Human Inaction on Climate Change: The second Trump Administration’s assault on the environment has been as damaging as expected, but other developments this year give at least some hope for the future.
December 11. Bill Mckibben: Trump’s Oil Piracy Shows Why the Push for Renewable Energy Is the Push for Peace: Conflict like the US targeting of Venezuela is probably inevitable as long as the world depends on an energy source that is available only in a few places.
December 12. Rebecca Solnit: The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how.
December 17. Alexandra Witze: Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science: Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
December 19. Bill Mckibben: The Science Equivalent of Tearing Down the East Wing of the White House: The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research is the most traumatic item on a list of recent climate defeats.
December 22. Matthew Daly: Trump administration suspends 5 wind projects off the East Coast, cites national security concerns.
December 22. The New York Times: How Trump’s First Year Reshaped U.S. Energy and Climate Policy: The sweeping changes have affected everything from coal plant retirements to international diplomacy over shipping emissions.