As President Trump and his cronies continue their all-out-assault on environmental protections, climate champions across the country are kicking their advocacy into high gear. The last month has brought a slew of legislative advocacy and wins at the federal, state, and local levels as environmental advocates work to counter Trump’s attempts to dismantle protections that keep our communities and environment safe.

Over the last two months, the Trump administration has taken a sledgehammer to environmental programs that help keep our communities safe and healthy. Many of those actions came on Day One of Trump’s presidency when he issued dozens of executive orders targeting clean energy and environmental protections.

But Democrats in Congress aren’t letting him gut these key protections without a fight. This month, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representatives Kathy Castor (D-FL) and Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced a bill that would undo the administration’s Day One executive orders on energy. If passed, the bill would help protect clean energy production, reduce energy costs, and maintain hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs jeopardized by the administration’s actions.

Additionally, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan blocked the Trump EPA’s attempt to rescind $20 billion in climate grants, stating that EPA had “no legal justification” for terminating the contracts that were finalized under President Biden. While this ruling does not immediately make the funds available to the grantees, it is an important first step toward releasing the funds frozen by the Trump administration.

In another major pushback against Trump’s harmful policies, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has rehired thousands of employees with wildland firefighting duties whose jobs were terminated in the Trump administration’s mass government slashing spree that has been underway since mid-February. The department is working on a phased re-entry plan for these employees to resume their duties protecting communities nationwide.

Lawmakers at both the federal and state levels are working hard to counter the administration’s anti-environmental agenda through legislation. In the U.S. House, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced a bill that would reauthorize an EPA program to reduce diesel emissions that are harmful to public health and the environment. This program, the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA), provides grants to states, Tribes, and local governments to upgrade older diesel engines that contribute to high levels of air pollution.

Lawmakers in Illinois, Ohio, and California also worked to bring forward pro-climate legislation over the last month.

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