Climate and Environment

As the Trump administration continues to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its operations, we are cataloguing examples of how AI is being deployed by federal agencies to replace human workers and undermine transparency and due process.

Members of the opposition party need to start connecting the dots between the OMB director’s actions and their constituents’ preventable suffering.

From gutting clean air rules to waging a war no one asked for, the Trump administration is showing that human suffering is a core feature of this regime. 

Former North Dakota Governor cum Trump Interior Secretary Doug Burgum was a venture capitalist who sold his software company for over a billion dollars. As Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum has decimated public lands while throttling clean energy projects and boosting oil, gas, and coal.

Fossil fuels are making our insurance premiums unaffordable and exposing us to financial ruin. But momentum is building to ramp up clean energy and make polluters pay!

Last week, The New York Times published yet another opinion piece arguing that “Democrats Don’t Have to Campaign on Climate Change Anymore,” this one by Syracuse University professor Matt Huber. Fox News’ David Marcus quickly declared victory: “New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax.”

On April 2, 2026, President Trump fired Pam Bondi as Attorney General. As Bondi transitions to an ambiguous private sector role, she leaves behind an ignoble legacy characterized by her gross incompetence, the destruction of the agency’s capacity and credibility, and her slavish pursuit of Trump’s political agenda and corporate America’s interest.

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.

Trump has taken us from War on Cancer to War on Cancer Patients

Can you blame Donald Trump for absurdly claiming that Americans will make a “lot of money” from skyrocketing oil prices? His administration is filled with the select individuals likely to profit as the prices at the pump trend upwards.

During her reign atop DHS, Noem made people around the United States less safe. The material impacts of her short-lived tenure will continue to be felt for years to come.

The driving force behind Noem’s unilateral austerity directive is Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought.

Differences in state regulations play a major role in the growing crisis over home insurance, which is closely linked to the climate emergency propelled by fossil fuels.

State insurance commissioners cannot tackle the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice on their own. But their role in aggravating or ameliorating problems deserves greater scrutiny.