An Urgent Climate Wake-Up Call

An Urgent Climate Wake-Up Call

From the daily newsletter: the economic consequences of the “big, beautiful bill”; the Republicans now doubting Trump; and how Elmore Leonard found his style.

The Big Beautiful Bill Is Bad for Climate Justice Too

Among the many, many provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that was signed into law on the Fourth of July are a host of environmental measures that continue the Trump Administration’s work to undo any and all progress on climate change. “It is not an overstatement to say this is the most anti-environment bill in history,” Patrick Drupp, director of climate policy for the Sierra Club, said in a statement.  And as the Biden Administration w…

Princeton Study Shows How Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" Derails U.S. Climate Goals

The recently passed President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBB) by Congressional Republicans is raising alarms among energy and climate experts.  According to a report from Princeton University’s REPEAT Project, the sweeping repeal of Biden-era climate legislation could derail the United States’ path to net zero. The analysis finds that the bill, combined with Trump’s planned executive actions, could lead to more than 7 billion …