By Benjamin S. Weiss , Courthouse News Service.  Excerpt: The president said the government-backed compendium of scientific and technological information, used to help judges ruling on complex cases, has been “totally discredited” and accused its authors of misleading the courts on climate change. ...Writing in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday evening, Trump said he had ordered “federal suspension and debarment officials” to review the National Academy of Sciences’ “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence,” [RMSE] a decades-old publication produced in partnership with the Federal Judicial Center and aimed at assisting federal judges on issues of science and technology. ...The latest edition of the judicial reference manual, published late last year, included a chapter on climate science and climate change. ...But in February, the Federal Judicial Center, the government’s education and research agency serving federal courts, said it had removed the climate ...

By Dharna Noor , The Guardian.  Excerpt: The Trump administration has tapped a former geochemist who has railed against “climate alarmism” and calls himself an “Earth science professor-in-exile” to oversee the federal government’s flagship report about climate impacts on the US. Matthew Wielicki, who lacks formal training in climate science, will now lead the nation’s Global Change Research Program, which federal officials have gutted during Trump’s second term. In his new position, Wielicki will lead the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report detailing how Americans are affected by the climate crisis. ...The assessments are required to be produced every four years under legislation passed by Congress in 1990 , but last year, the Trump administration shut down the online portal to access the five editions published since 2000. Wielicki is a climate science denier who frequently criticizes established climate science online , including in videos by right...

By Amanda Holpuch , The New York Times.  Excerpt: Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at red lights. ...The start-stop feature is meant to save fuel and reduce emissions, but the Trump administration rejected the scientific finding that the government used to support vehicle emission reduction regulations, making it possible to eliminate the credit. ...Research shows that start-stop reduces fuel use and cuts emissions. Depending on driving conditions, stop-start improved fuel economy between 7.27 and 26.4 percent during testing, according to a  2023 technical paper  by SAE International, an organization formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers....  Full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/business/energy-environment/epa-tax-credits-stop-start-ignition-cars.html . 

By Eric Niiler , The New York Times.  Excerpt: The U.S. National Science Foundation said on Thursday that the management and operations of a supercomputer used by more than 4,000 climate and weather scientists across the country would be transferred from a leading research lab to an undisclosed third party. ...Science foundation officials said stewardship of the supercomputer, located at a National Center for Atmospheric Research [NCAR] facility in Cheyenne, Wyo., would “transition to a third-party operator” but declined to give details about the new operator or the timeline. The national center...at its headquarters in Boulder, Colo., and has managed the Cheyenne facility since it opened in 2012. The announcement took many scientists by surprise. ...The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in humanity’s understanding of weather and climate. Its research aircraft and sophisticated computer models of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans ar...

By Brad Plumer , The New York Times.  Excerpt: President Trump on Wednesday directed the Pentagon to start buying more electricity from coal-burning power plants as part of his efforts to revive the declining coal industry....  Full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/climate/trump-coal-pentagon-electricity.html . 

By Karen Zraick , The New York Times.  Excerpt: In a new attack on the science of climate change, a federal agency has stripped a chapter on global warming from a manual written to help judges understand important scientific questions they may face in their courtrooms....  Full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/climate/judge-manual-climate-change-chapter.html . 

By Valerie Volcovici  and  David Shepardson , Reuters.  Excerpt: The administration of President Donald Trump is set this week to overturn an Obama-era scientific finding that carbon dioxide endangers human health, removing the legal basis for federal greenhouse gas emissions regulations. The move, which the administration formally proposed in July, would mark the Republican administration's most sweeping climate change policy rollback to date, and follows a string of regulatory cuts and other moves intended to unfetter fossil fuel development and stymie the rollout of clean energy....  Full article at https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-repeal-landmark-climate-finding-huge-regulatory-rollback-wsj-reports-2026-02-10/ .  See also New York Times articles, Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change and What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation . Also from the American Geophysical Union, AGU Denounces Trump ...

By Brad Plumer  and  Rebecca F. Elliott , The New York Times.  Excerpt: A week before the 2024 election, Idaho’s largest electric utility struck a 35-year deal to buy power from a wind farm under development in Wyoming. The Jackalope Wind project would span an area the size of Chicago, with hundreds of wind turbines generating clean electricity by 2027. But the wind farm soon became a casualty of President Trump’s efforts to slow — and sometimes revoke — federal approvals for wind and solar projects. A key  environmental review  of Jackalope by the Interior Department was stalled for months, and the project is now effectively dead. Similar stories are unfolding nationwide. While Mr. Trump’s  attacks on offshore wind  have been highly visible, his administration has also been hobbling solar and wind energy projects on land by halting or delaying federal approvals that were once routine....  Full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/climate...

By Chelsea Harvey , E&E News by Politico.  Excerpt: The National Climate Assessments.  Climate.gov . The billion-dollar disaster database. Hundreds of scientific datasets. They’re all government resources that have been altered, deleted or curtailed since President Donald Trump returned to office nearly one year ago. Now, all of those resources have been rescued, in some form or another, by organizations that are determined to combat Trump’s cuts to federal science. But whether these grassroots missions are making a difference — or are able to fully replace their canceled counterparts — is hard to say. Even as some efforts to preserve the information show promise for purposes like public education or climate-related lawsuits, they’re also running up against big challenges....  Full article at https://www.eenews.net/articles/all-the-climate-info-that-disappeared-under-trump-and-how-its-being-saved/ .

By Hannah Richter , Science.  Excerpt: NEW ORLEANS— Alarm spread fast today among climate scientists here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU): President Donald Trump’s administration, they learned, was going to try to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the world’s premier climate and weather research centers. The news, delivered last night via a post on X from Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, had come with no prior warning from the White House or from NCAR’s funder, the National Science Foundation (NSF), says Antonio Busalacchi, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a consortium that manages NCAR. Vought’s  post  asserted that NCAR is “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism,” and said the center’s “vital activities,” such as weather research, would be moved to another entity or location....  Full article at https://www.sc...

By Brady Dennis . The Washington Post.  Excerpt: The rate of sea-level rise along U.S. coastlines has more than doubled over the past 125 years, according to  a new analysis  that examined data from scores of tide gauges from around the country. The findings stand in contrast to a wide-ranging, widely criticized  assessment  of climate science that the Trump administration released this summer. Chris Piecuch, a sea-level scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said he undertook his analysis in response to that Energy Department report, whichhe and others argue uses cherry-picked data to conclude that “U.S. tide gauge measurements reveal no obvious acceleration beyond the historical average rate of sea-level rise.” ...That assessment also underscores that some places, such as the Pacific Coast, have experienced little sea-level rise compared with places such as the gulf coast. Some spots in Alaska have even seen an overall decrease as sea-level rise is...

By CHLOE AIELLO  AND  SAM BLUM , Inc.  Excerpt: Inside the fallout from the Department of Energy’s slashing of $8 billion in loans and grants, and how the companies affected aim to ‘Trump-proof’ their businesses. ...Jim Kesseli...was particularly rattled when one of Brayton’s hard-earned Department of Energy contracts was terminated last month. ...The research and development contract was issued by the DOE, and was initially meant to fund a three-year project researching various utility-scale energy storage solutions. ...Kesseli islooking to find new assignments for five people as a direct result of the contract’s cancellation. ... Nearly $8 billion in funding, cancelled ...Since Donald Trump was sworn into office again, U.S. energy policy has drastically veered toward fossil fuels—and away from renewables. The policy has left scores of clean energy startups on precarious financial footing, or scrambling to make up for projected revenue streams that have d...

By Jean Chemnick , E&E News by Politico.  Excerpt: EPA has ...modified sections of  its website  by deleting information about human-created greenhouse gases and the role they play in warming the planet. It also removed links to scientific data and information. The website now directs visitors to a subsection  on climate “causes”  that mentions only natural phenomena as the drivers of warming, like changes in the Earth’s orbit and variations in solar activity. Two subsections titled “ Climate Change Indicators ” and “ Climate Change Impacts and Analysis ” have been removed....  Full article at https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-erases-references-to-human-caused-climate-change-from-websites/ . 

By Somini Sengupta ,  Brad Plumer  and  David Gelles , The New York Times.  Excerpt: The international climate summit opened on Thursday in Belém, a Brazilian city on the edge of the imperiled Amazon rainforest, with several of America’s global allies and rivals alike making the case that slowing down global warming is today key to economic growth and energy security. It was a sharp counterpoint to President Trump, who has called climate change a “con job” ...attacked global efforts to transition away from coal, oil and gas ...has launched a full-throated...attack on global efforts to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels. ...no senior American government officials are present at the meeting in Belém. ...extreme weather events, aggravated by the burning of coal, oil and gas, has heightened human suffering. In the last two weeks alone, storms and hurricanes supersized by climate change clobbered Mexico, Jamaica and Haiti. Globally, 2025 is on track to be the sec...

By Michael Booth  and  Mark Jaffe , The Colorado Sun.  Excerpt: Colorado is losing $550 million in federal clean energy grants as Trump administration officials slash awards to primarily Democratic-controlled states during the budget shutdown,  including a highly-touted $326 million block to Colorado State University  intended to create methane-cutting technologies to combat climate change.  The Colorado Energy Office struggled Thursday to understand the magnitude of the cuts, which are part of a $7.5 billion reversal of Biden-era clean energy grants announced Wednesday night by the U.S. Department of Energy.  ...The Department of Energy list that emerged Thursday “specifically targets states where a majority of Americans cast their votes in favor of the Democratic nominee for President,” a Colorado Energy Office statement said....  Full article at https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/03/colorado-federal-energy-grant-cancellation-550-million/ . 

By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey , The New York Times.  Excerpt: The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region. ...The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet and is one of the most rapidly changing places on Earth....  Full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/climate/arctic-research-security.html . 

By Gaea Cabico , Science.  Excerpt: As government websites go dark, some nonprofits are trying to fill the void. When news broke that climate.gov was about to go dark in June, Jeffrey Grant scrambled to download as many graphs and data tables from the website as he could. The high school biology teacher had relied heavily on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website to teach students about climate change, showing data on carbon dioxide levels and asking the students to analyze trends and make connections like real climatologists....  Full article at https://www.science.org/content/article/science-teachers-scramble-u-s-climate-resources-vanish .

By effrey Mervis , Science.  Excerpt: NSF-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research fears worse in coming months. ...Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the world’s leading climate research centers, this week laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions. The job actions...coincide with the start of a partial U.S. government shutdown. NCAR, which is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has so far been able to maintain normal operations and avoid furloughs of its 830 employees. But NCAR officials fear what could happen next: a $50 million cut to the center’s current $123 million budget....  Full article at https://www.science.org/content/article/renowned-u-s-climate-center-trims-staff-ahead-expected-budget-cuts . 

By Paul Voosen , Science.  Excerpt: The  last assessment  of the state of climate science from the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in its final form 2 years ago, was a monumental effort, with  721 volunteer scientists  synthesizing all available published research. Yesterday, the Department of Energy (DOE)  released  its own climate assessment, as part of a campaign by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to overturn its landmark endangerment finding from 2009, which found that burning fossil fuels endangers public health and established carbon dioxide as a pollutant EPA could regulate. But the DOE  report —called  A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate —had fewer authors than IPCC’s: just five. ...Climate researchers say the authors cherry-picked evidence and highlighted uncertainties to achieve the net effect of downplaying the impacts of climate ch...

https://www.science.org/content/article/jury-rules-climate-scientist-michael-mann-long-running-defamation-case By PAUL VOOSEN , Science.  Excerpt: A jury found today that Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, was defamed by the writers of two blog posts 12 years ago that compared his work on global warming to child molestation. ...At the heart of Mann’s lawsuit are two 25-year-old  scientific   papers  that he led. The studies combined historical records with tree rings and other temperature proxies going back 1000 years to show that temperatures stayed largely flat until the past century, when they rose sharply. A key chart from the papers, dubbed the “hockey stick” because of its shape, was used in a 2001 U.N. climate report. ...One of those attacks was written in 2012 by Simberg, then a blogger at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, following the arrest of Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky, a serial child molester who coached football at the school. Simberg lik...