Trump’s First 100 Days: 100 Harms to Our Climate, Communities, Health, and Consumers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 29, 2025
CONTACT: Gabrielle Levy, Glevy@cacampaign.org, 562-673-6974
Trump’s First 100 Days: 100 Harms to Our Climate, Communities, Health, and Consumers
Trump’s Polluters First Agenda: Polluters Win and We Lose
WASHINGTON–This week marks the first 100 days of the Trump administration. As we reach this milestone, the Climate Action Campaign (CAC) is releasing our Trump’s 100 Days, 100 Harms Tracker, a resource quantifying the breadth of the harms the Trump administration has unleashed on climate, public health, and clean energy progress through its disastrous climate and clean energy rollbacks.
Since January 20, the Trump administration has blocked enforcement of our bedrock environmental laws and begun to roll back decades of environmental protections safeguarding our air and water and limiting climate change-causing pollution. This administration has arbitrarily and illegally cancelled investments in clean energy and slashed funds designed to help communities prepare for and recover from extreme weather. The Trump administration has fired scientists, health professionals, and the environmental justice staff whose jobs were to protect communities disproportionately affected by the climate crisis.
"Trump’s first 100 days have been the most harmful 100 days of any administration for climate, clean energy, public health, and for our communities,” said Margie Alt, Director of the Climate Action Campaign. "As Trump enacts his chaotic agenda, Americans are paying the price through more pollution, more severe and frequent extreme weather events and higher energy bills. People are going to get sicker, poorer, and less safe, while polluters get a free pass.
"This isn’t leadership. It’s a Polluters First Agenda that exposes nearly every person to harm to their health and their livelihoods."
The 100 Days, 100 Harms Tracker is an attempt to paint a picture of the pain the new administration has inflicted on the climate, economy, health, and wellbeing of the American people in its first months. It links the Trump administration’s activities with the people, businesses, and communities whose lives are being disrupted by those actions:
- Repealing air quality standards means people in Phoenix – which has some of the worst air quality in the country – will experience higher rates of asthma, heart attacks, and pre-term births.
- Planned cuts to FEMA could put extreme financial burdens on the people living in some of Georgia’s most disaster-prone areas.
- Efforts to roll back tailpipe pollution standards and clean energy funding freezes are undercutting Michigan’s auto industry and clean energy manufacturing industries.
- Losing access to the Weatherization Assistance Program means tens of thousands of low-income households in Pennsylvania are without access to cost-saving upgrades.
See the full list here.
