Trump Victory Slated To Spur Major Upheaval For Environmental Policy

November 6, 2024
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, the direction of federal environmental policy faces a major upheaval, as he has pledged to sharply roll back a host of Biden-era climate and other regulations and would likely scale back EPA’s work in a number of areas. One former EPA official says that a Trump victory would usher in an agenda along the lines of the first Trump administration, but “on steroids.” At press time, Trump was projected...


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