The Federal Judicial Center's removal of climate science guidance marks a strategic, deregulatory move to undermine mechanisms for private enforcement in climate change and environmental justice litigation.
As federal banking agencies step away from climate-focused oversight, state regulators are well suited to take the policy lead, leveraging local knowledge to manage emerging financial risks.
While recent decisions curtail centralized regulatory authority in pollution enforcement, Americans can regulate pollution by exercising private property rights.
As the government shutdown rolls into its fourth week, the EPA has ceased several core functions, and now may face a vast reduction in force.
The Trump administration has issued numerous rollbacks of legislation critical to wildlife preservation, which will result in loss of biodiversity and ensuing litigation.
The Trump Administration invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to create its new tariff regime. This new trade policy disrupts the clean energy transition and shows how the trade deficit, not climate change, will be treated as an emergency.
EPA cancels more than 400 grants across nine programs, eliminating $1.7 billion that was dedicated to air and water quality improvement and extreme weather resilience.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s intention to reconsider 31 regulations for the purpose of revitalizing the American economy and auto-industry, arguably neglecting the EPA’s environmental protection mission.
Facing President Trump’s intensified climate rollback, states have emerged as the bulwark—recommitting to emission reductions, suing for constitutional principles, and challenging unprecedented executive overreach.
Trump spent his first day in office issuing a series of executive orders reversing the Biden administration’s policies on climate change and energy. As Trump retreats from global climate cooperation, is the U.S. falling out of step with the rest of the world?
