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March 11, 2026

Dorothy Slater Fatou Ndiaye

Blog Post Climate and Environment

Tracking the Environmental Harms of Trump Actions

Trump’s second term began with drastic announcements on Day One and has been chaotic every day since. It can be overwhelming to try to keep up with the cuts to environmental funding, rollbacks to critical regulations, and track the thousands of staff across agencies who have been fired from their roles. The purpose of this tracker is to monitor some of the most important tangible increases in pollution and environmental and health harms caused by the Trump administration’s actions.

March 04, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentCongressional OversightDefenseExecutive Branch

Department of Global War and Warming

Even before we had Trump as Commander in Chief committing unconstitutional strikes on the leaders of foreign nations, and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of War ordering apparent war crimes in the Caribbean, we wrote about the military-industrial complex as a “disaster multiplier” in our era of climate change and interlocking crises. 

March 03, 2026

Xaver Clarke

Blog Post 2026 ElectionDepartment of Homeland SecurityDOGEExecutive BranchImmigrationTech

Personal Information at Risk

The United States federal government knows a lot about you. If you’ve ever applied for federal student aid, the Department of Education has records of your income and assets. The Social Security Administration begins collecting information from the moment your parents apply for your Social Security number at birth, adds new data every time Social Security taxes are deducted from your paychecks, and continues to monitor you until the day you die.

Corruption Calendar

A chronicle of the Trump favor machine highlighting examples of corporate corruption shaping the Trump administration’s agenda and their material impact on everyday people. The Corruption Calendar will trace the lines of money and influence between corporations, billionaires, and executive branch decision making.

February 23, 2026

Press Release Climate and EnvironmentEthics in GovernmentIndustry InfluenceSupreme Court

Inconsistent Recusals Continue at Corrupt Supreme Court

On Monday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a petition from oil companies Suncor and ExxonMobil who want the Court to shut down the climate deception case being brought against the companies by Boulder County, San Miguel County, and the City of Boulder. This petition is one of the oil and gas industry’s many ongoing attempts to evade liability for concealing the harms of its product.

February 13, 2026 | The American Prospect

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal Hannah Story Brown

Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentExecutive Branch

Doug Burgum, the Regime Toady of Our Time

According to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Donald Trump is the “king of PEACE”—an odd position for a Lutheran like Burgum, as it would rank Trump above the “Prince of Peace,” Jesus Christ—and Europeans should be “cheering” for him to annex Greenland. It’s also odd for the Interior secretary, whose duties principally concern federal lands, to be commenting on European opinion.