100 Days of Trump: How the US Overturned Years of Climate Progress. Earth.Org Martina IginiAmericasApr 30th 2025The first 100 days of the new Trump administration have fundamentally altered the US’ role in the global fight against climate change. From mass firings and regulatory rollbacks to the resurgence of coal, Earth.Org looks at some of President Donald Trump’s most consequential actions since January 20, and what they mean for Americans and the world. Trump’s current approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days since at least Dwight Eisenhower – including Trump’s own first term. While none of the polls Earth.Org analyzed questioned people’s opinion on the administration’s climate policies to date, the repercussions these measures will have on the health and well-being of Americans are patently evident. Trump has shocked America and the world with the speed at which he has overturned much of the country’s progress on climate, building on his campaign promise to “drill, baby drill” and “unleash American energy”.
Alarmingly, his administration has erased all references to climate change, global warming and environmental justice from federal websites and official records, and halted work on the National National Climate Assessment, the most comprehensive source of information about how climate change affects the US. With these decisions, the government is denying millions of Americans their right to access information that could, in some cases, quite literally save lives. What follows are some of the most consequential actions the second Trump administration has taken since January 20, aimed at rolling back climate progress and promoting its anti-climate objectives.
Fossil Fuels Revival..... On Inauguration Day, Trump declared a “national energy emergency”. This came despite the US hitting record oil production levels under the Biden administration and currently producing more oil than any other country at any other time. He also pledged to make the US a “manufacturing nation” by using the country’s vast fossil fuel reserves. “We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it,” he said. The burning of fossil fuels – coal, natural gas, and oil – for electricity and heat is the single-largest source of global greenhouse gas emissions, the primary drivers of global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere and raising Earth’s surface temperature.
Regulatory Rollbacks- Emissions and pollution.... In March, the Environmental Protection Agency said it would “formally reconsider” a landmark 2009 finding by the agency that greenhouse gases and motor vehicle emissions are a danger to public health. The move kicks off a years-long effort by the new administration to roll back dozens of environmental rules, including those regulating pollution from vehicles and power plants, national air quality standards for particulate matter, emission standards for industrial air pollutants, and wastewater discharges for oil and gas extraction facilities. Rules on soot, mercury and coal ash pollution, as well as the so-called “good neighbor rule” that regulates downwind air pollution, are also set to be eliminated. Scientists say these rollbacks will leave the nation “sicker” and its air, water and soil “dangerously contaminated.”AND THERE'S MUCH MORE
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