Activists gather outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate change accord.
AP Photo / Susan Walsh
Follow the climate rules being rolled back during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Amy Westervelt and Emily Gertz, Drilled News
AP Photo / Susan Walsh
Activists gather outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate change accord.
This story originally appeared in Drilled News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story.
The Drilled News Climate & COVID-19 Policy Tracker is keeping an eye on climate change-related rollbacks by the Trump administration and state governments amid the coronavirus crisis, along with favors to oil and gas, and other energy and climate-related industries.
The fossil fuel industry and its allies in the Trump administration have begun attempting to leverage the COVID-19 pandemic for help from the federal government. The administration has stalled or rolled back some regulations and moved forward with policies that, in some cases, benefit the petroleum sector.
The changes are happening even as climate scientists say that for all nations to have a chance of averting catastrophic climate change, industrial nations must slash their carbon pollution within roughly a decade.
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