Trump has launched more attacks on the environment in 100 days than his entire first term

Trump has launched more attacks on the environment in 100 days than his entire first term
Blitzkrieg has hit protections in place for land, oceans, forests and wildlife, and will worsen the climate crisis

Oliver Milman
Thu 1 May 2025 07.00 EDT


Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented assault upon the environment, instigating 145 actions to undo rules protecting clean air, water and a livable climate in this administration’s first 100 days – more rollbacks than were completed in Trump’s entire first term as US president.

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“They are doing things faster and with less process than last time, often disregarding the law. The intent is to shock, overwhelm and to overcome resistance through sheer force of numbers.”

Through executive orders, agency memos and other policy moves, the Trump administration has deleted a swath of Joe Biden-era green policies, frozen climate spending, removed the US from the Paris climate accords and set about rewriting pollution standards for cars, trucks and power plants.

Sprawling tracts of land, including in the Arctic, have been earmarked for new oil and gas drilling, commercial fishing will be ushered into ocean sanctuaries and half of the US’s vast expanse of national forests can now be cut down for timber. Laws to prevent harm to endangered species are set to be drastically pared back, while protected national monuments are on course to be shrunk.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/trump-air-climate-pollution-regulation-100-days