Environment

Recent News and Rollbacks

• NPR – Destroying endangered species' habitat wouldn't count as 'harm' under proposed Trump rule
• Inside Climate News – Trump Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change
• The Washington Post – Trump Administration Orders Half of National Forests Open for Logging
• The Guardian – Trump has launched more attacks on the environment in 100 days than his entire first term
• AP – What Trump’s budget cuts could mean for the environment
• The Guardian – Revealed: Forecasts of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels soar in Trump’s first 100 days
• The New York Times – Trump Stocks E.P.A. With Oil, Gas and Chemical Lobbyists Paywall: archive
• The Guardian – Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US
• Reuters – States sue over Trump’s ESG rollbacks Paywall: archive

Policy Trackers

• Columbia Law School Climate Backtracker
• Harvard Environmental Law & Policy Regulatory Tracker

America's largest grid operator has issued a "Maximum Generation Emergency/Load Management Alert" as a heatwave sweeps across the eastern U.S., Monday. Our story from 2023 on how climate change is making summers hotter, blackouts more common, and what happens if the grid collapses.

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