Trump 2.0

We’re tracking the second Trump administration’s climate and environmental cuts and rollbacks with interviews about the big picture and stories about the repercussions in our region.

A man in a harness with a white solar panel stands in front of a ladder on a brick home.

‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ casts shade over Pennsylvania’s solar boom

Julie Grant·July 25, 2025

The future of solar installation companies and manufacturing plants is in doubt with the early phase out of tax credits in the new law.

Economy Energy Trump 2.0

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Pennsylvania sues Trump’s FEMA over end of grant program that helps states prevent flooding

Sophia Schmidt·July 25, 2025

More than $130 million in federal funds for projects across Pennsylvania to help communities prepare for disasters have been canceled.

Climate Change Trump 2.0

Trump’s tax cut bill turned a clean energy tax credit into an instrument to boost coal

Reid Frazier·July 23, 2025

Metallurgical coal is used in steelmaking is a significant greenhouse gas polluter. Companies that mine metallurgical coal are now in line to receive a 2.5 percent tax credit.

Economy Energy Trump 2.0

Trump came to Pittsburgh to promote AI in Pennsylvania. Here’s what you need to know.

Reid Frazier·July 18, 2025

Tech leaders, politicians and gas industry executives joined the president at Carnegie Mellon University, amid protests.

Climate Change Economy Energy Politics Technology Trump 2.0 Your Environment Update

Why Trump’s budget bill could mean ‘America’s electric vehicle surrender’

Julie Grant·June 20, 2025

Narayan Subramanian, who worked in the Biden administration, says President Trump’s budget bill would cede the U.S. electric vehicle supply chain to China.

Climate Change Transportation Trump 2.0 Your Environment Update

Atlantic Shores seeks to cancel offshore wind contract with N.J., but says it hasn’t abandoned the project

Susan Phillips·June 19, 2025

The company says its offshore wind project is in a holding pattern while awaiting a new political climate.

Climate Change Energy Trump 2.0

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Despite court order, black lung screening program still not fully functional

Curtis Tate·June 12, 2025

There are no funds to operate a mobile X-ray unit and the agency is missing contract workers to read chest X-rays.

Energy Health Trump 2.0

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Pa. clean energy businesses call on McCormick, Fetterman to preserve tax credits

90.5 WESA·June 12, 2025

They say the federal spending plan before the U.S. Senate would devastate the clean energy industry in Pennsylvania, while raising energy costs.

Energy Politics Trump 2.0

Pa. Republican congressmen applaud EPA plan to roll back Biden-era climate rules

Zoë Read·June 12, 2025

Biden-era rules aimed to phase out greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel plants and tighten limits on mercury and air toxics.

Climate Change Politics Trump 2.0

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Solar savings for Clairton, other Pa. schools at risk from proposed federal cuts

Rachel McDevitt·June 5, 2025

Republican-controlled U.S. House passed a spending plan that would phase out clean energy tax credits ahead of the schedule, shrinking funds for schools.