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Want to dig deeper and understand what media coverage and conversations are happening around the climate and human consequences of Trump’s plans, including important articles about Immigrant Justice and the Climate Emergency? Read on!
Trump Is Picking New Climate Fights With States. Here’s Why.
The White House has begun a new effort to sue individual states over their climate initiatives and to stop lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.
The New York Times, May 6, 2025 — article
Trump has launched more attacks on the environment in 100 days than his entire first term
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.
Trump’s blitzkrieg has hit almost every major policy to shield Americans from toxic pollution, curb the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and protect landscapes, oceans, forests and imperiled wildlife.
The Guardian, May 1, 2025 — article
Trump’s first 100 days: US walks away from global climate action
The Trump administration has pulled the plug on the UN climate process and its financial contributions, while at the same time backing fossil fuels and obstructing renewables.
Climate Change News, April 29, 2025 — article
EPA Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email
The Biden administration required coal- and oil-burning power plants to greatly reduce emissions of toxic chemicals including mercury, which can harm babies’ brains and cause heart disease in adults.
Now, the Trump administration is offering companies an extraordinary out: Send an email, and they might be given permission by President Trump to bypass the new restrictions, as well as other major clean-air rules.
The New York Times, March 27, 2025 — article
More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024 says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced
The UN’s report on 2024 sets out a trail of destruction from extreme weather that took lives, demolished buildings and ravaged vital crops. More than 800,000 people were displaced and made homeless.
The Guardian, March 18, 2025 — article
Full on Fight Club’: How Trump Is Crushing U.S. Climate Policy
President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power. In a few short weeks, he has severely damaged the government’s ability to fight climate change, upending American environmental policy with moves that could have lasting implications for the country, and the planet.
The New York Times, March 2, 2025 — article
Recent articles delving into the connections between climate change, immigration, and rising authoritarianism
Immigration Justice Must Be a Climate Fight, Too
If we hope to preserve a stable climate, we must prevail in the fight of our lives against authoritarianism. And to do that, climate movement leaders must commit to an unprecedented level of solidarity with the communities targeted by Trump, in particular immigrants and refugees.
commondreams.org, Nov 19, 2024 — read article
How does climate change drive human migration? Q & A
This in-depth Q&A with experts in climate change and migration explores how climate change is already leading to displacement and migration, what future changes in human movement might look like, and the measures that are being taken to protect displaced people.
It also presents case studies from around the world offering examples of climate-driven migration and displacement.
CarbonBrief, April 10, 2024 — read article
Why Climate Justice Must Include Migrant Communities
Border violence profiteering is climate change profiteering — here’s why climate justice needs to include migrant communities.
NowThis Earth, April 7, 2022 — watch video
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