Climate and Environment

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.”

Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.

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.

It’s a lot easier to be an ambitious, pro-consumer and pro-climate regulator when you aren’t trying to preserve friendships with profit-maximizing insurance CEOs.

Last month, when the Supreme Court agreed to grant a petition from two oil companies, Suncor and Exxon, in a long-running dispute over whether the companies can be held liable under state law by Boulder, Colorado, for climate damages ensuing from their corporate misconduct, the most notable sentence was the one that was missing: “Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.”

The consequences of the Trump administration’s unending depravity will be far reaching

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.