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Environmentalists Gear Up to Fight Trump in Court

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Karen Zraick
As Trump pledges regulatory rollbacks, environmental groups say the administration’s aggressive cost-cutting tactics could make it easier for them to win some long-term battles.

© Mark Abramson for The New York Times

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, right, visiting fire-ravaged Altadena, Calif., earlier this month.
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Why Coal Has Been So Hard to Quit in the U.S.

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Austyn Gaffney
What the economics of coal-rich states like Wyoming tells us about the transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuel.

© Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times

A coal-fired plant in Glenrock, Wyo.
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How Trump’s Trade War Could Affect Climate Change

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:David Gelles
President Trump’s tariffs could threaten supply chains in the renewable energy industry and disrupt oil and gas markets.

© The New York Times

Yangshan Port in Shanghai. President Trump’s tariffs against Chinese imports go into effect today.
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E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Lisa Friedman
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.

© Joshua A. Bicket/Associated Press

Research on PFAS, a family of toxic compounds known as forever chemicals, at an Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati.
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Over 1,000 EPA Workers on Climate Change and More Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Lisa Friedman
A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

The Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington. Union leaders called the move a clear attempt to gut an agency that President Trump dislikes.
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