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2025
EPA plans to fire 1,100+ staff
Agency: EPA
Status: Announced
Via: Memorandum

More than a thousand Environmental Protection Agency employees recieved a letter saying they could be fired at any time. These EPA staff work on climate change, air pollution, and environmental enforcement programs, many of which were created by Congress in the past two years, to help clean up toxic sites, replace lead pipes, and fund clean energy projects – and will likely have an outsize impact on employees working on environmental justice programs.

Trump requires removal 10 existing rules for every new rule
Agency: Executive Branch
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order

The order requires that when an agency finalizes a new regulation or guidance they identify 10 existing rules to be cut. This gift for polluters threatens public safety, health, and the environment.

Trump orders tariffs against trading partners
Agency: White House
Status: Announced
Via: Executive Order

Trump imposed tariffs on several key trading partners, with severe implications for the supply chains for wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehices. Though the some of the tariffs, on Canada and Mexico, were delayed one month, the unstable trade environment could nevertheless hurt the economy and U.S. workers.

Trump administration scrubs "climate change" from federal websites
Agency: Agriculture, EPA
Status: In Effect
Via: Memorandum

Mentions of climate change have been removed from federal websites such the Department of Agriculture,
which includes the Forest Service and climate-smart agriculture programs, and the EPA. The move appears to be part of a broader effort to remove content and pages on issues such as climate change, gun violence, accessibility, reproductive rights, and more.

EPA Illegally Suspends Solar For All Grants
Agency: EPA
Status: In Effect
Via: Memorandum

The EPA halted $7 billion in contractually obligated grants for Solar For All, an Inflation Reduction Act program that delivers clean energy and lower prices to vulnerable communities

EPA’s Science Advisory Panel Members Fired
Agency: EPA
Status: In Effect
Via: Memorandum

Acting EPA administrator James Payne dismisses members of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board, which provides independent expertise to the agency on air quality standards and sources of air pollution.

Illegal freeze of all federal grants and loans
Agency: OMB
Status: Rescinded
Via: Memorandum

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issues illegal freeze of all federal loans and grants, risking programs providing heating assistance to low-income families, creating clean energy jobs, aiding climate disaster victims, and more. The order was rescinded after significant public outcry.

Attack on federal workers
Agency: Personnel Manangement
Status: Announced
Via: Memorandum

Reclassifies tens of thousands of federal employees as at-will workers, making them easier to fire. This action politicizes essential government functions and the federal workers who support them, sidelining or silencing experts in charge of making decisions that impact the health of communities across the nation.

Trump threatens to hold California wildfire aid hostage unless the state changes water management policy to benefit his golf course and passes restrictive voting laws.

Trump announces plans to eliminate or overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

"FEMA has turned out to be a disaster … I think we recommend that FEMA go away."

Terminate American Climate Corps
Agency: White House
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order

Ends all programs of the American Climate Corps, which created thousands of jobs combatting climate change and protecting and restoring public lands.

Open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other Alaska Lands for Drilling
Agency: Interior
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order

Reopens sensitive federal lands and waters in Alaska to drilling.

Freezes New Wind Energy Leases
Agency: Interior
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order

Withdraws wind energy leasing from U.S. waters and federal lands.

Expands Offshore Oil Drilling
Agency: Interior
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order

Reopens U.S. coastlines to offshore drilling.

Attacks NEPA Protections
Agency: CEQ
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order

Rescinds order requiring White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to assess environmental and community impacts and allow community input into federal infrastructure projects.

Attacks Climate and Clean Energy Investments
Agency: EPA, OMB
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order
Trump’s Action: Freezes unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and directs agencies to reassess.
Resumes LNG Permitting
Agency: Energy
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order
Trump’s Action: Expedites LNG export terminal approval over analysis finding exports raises energy costs for consumers.
Attacks Authority to Regulate Climate Pollution
Agency: Congress, White House
Status: Announced
Via: Executive Order

Challenges EPA’s mandate under the Clean Air Act to reduce climate- and health-harming pollution.

Attacks on Clean Car Standards
Agency: EPA, Highway Safety
Status: Announced
Via: Executive Order
Trump’s Action: Clean car standards require automakers to reduce tailpipe pollution from vehicles beginning in 2027.
Revokes Biden Climate Crisis and Environmental Justice Executive Actions
Agency: White House
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order

Reverses U.S. commitment to fight climate change and its impacts, and protect overburdened communities.

Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
Agency: White House
Status: In Effect
Trump’s Action: Reverses the US' international commitment to tackling climate change and reducing pollution.
Energy Emergency Declaration
Agency: White House
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order

Authorizes federal government to expedite permitting and approval of fossil fuel, infrastructure, and mining projects and circumvent Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act requirements.

Freeze All In Progress Standards
Agency: White House
Status: In Effect
Via: Executive Order

Freezes in-progress climate, clean air and consumer protections.

No More Windmills

“We’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built,"

Trump said during a wide-ranging press conference at Mar-a-Lago.

2024
Pay to Play

Trump promises expedited permits and environmental reviews for companies who pay $1 billion