The Trump administration's blueprints for remaking the EPA outline 31 regulations to eliminate or significantly scale back. Faith leaders say the rollbacks would harm human and environmental health.
A few hours after his second inauguration address on Monday, Jan. 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Denali to Mount McKinley.
"Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household made me fierce. I'll be fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land," Haaland said in 2021 ahead of her congressional confirmation vote.
Cardinal McElroy did not shy from calling out Trump's environmental policies during his first administration. Now, the papal ally on ecological issues will move to D.C. not long after Trump returns to the White House.
"We have to be prophets of hope" and prevent mining water contamination, "including physically, if necessary," Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez said in a homily, as El Salvador is poised to reverse its ban on metal mining.
Dislodging climate change from the culture wars might feel nearly impossible. But scientists have found ways to talk about the changing weather that resonate with conservative segments of the U.S. who have been skeptical of global warming.
The White House announced a new national goal that would see the country's greenhouse gas emissions drop up to 66%, but its fulfillment may fall on states and cities during a second Trump administration.
As President Joe Biden prepares to exit the White House, officials in his administration are working with international partners to push forward an agreement that would see almost all funding for oil and gas projects scaled back from some of the world's largest public funding sources for energy infrastructure.
