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3 Upbeat Fighting Back Articles from Inside Climate News
Inside Climate News: Election 2024
Georgina Gustin. “Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0.”
Disheartened, worried, even scared, activists and strategists are nevertheless better prepared this time around and bracing for a long fight. Donald Trump has promised to demolish the country’s domestic and international climate policies at a crucial moment, when climate scientists say the window is closing on the world’s ability to avoid the most dangerous impacts of global warming. Read the full story
Wyatt Myskow, et al. “Despite Likely Setback for Climate Action With This Year’s Election, New Climate Champions Set to Enter Congress.”
Across the country, voters elected new members to Congress who have promoted climate action at the state level and could prevent environmental laws from being weakened under Republican leadership. The 2024 election will likely result in a major setback for climate action, with President-elect Donald Trump retaking the White House and Republicans taking back control of the Senate. Climate advocates in Congress now must work to ward off the worst attempts to weaken the country’s bedrock environmental laws and gut recently passed climate actions from the Biden administration. Read the full story [Send me what you know about the results, and I’ll pass it along. -D]
“How to Think About Climate and Environmental Policies During a Second Trump Administration: What lies ahead for Project 2025, EVs, the EPA and more.” From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering and Steve Curwood with Inside Climate News’s Washington bureau chief Marianne Lavelle and executive editor Vernon Loeb, about what the election of Donald Trump may mean for the environment. Read the full story
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