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.

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Campgrounds at Raystown Lake to reopen in phased rollout starting Friday

Sydney Roach·August 15, 2025

Susquehannock and Nancy's Boat-to-Shore Campgrounds will open this week, followed by Seven Points Campground on Friday, September 5.

Recreation Trump 2.0

A worker in a green safety shirt and hard hat crouches next to a solar panel.

EPA canceled Solar for All. Will that matter in Pennsylvania?

Julie Grant·August 8, 2025

Pennsylvania received $156 million for low to mid-income families to install solar, but state lawmakers needed to approve it. They never did.

Climate Change Energy Environmental Justice Trump 2.0

What you need to know about EPA’s effort to dump legal underpinning of climate rules

Julie Grant·August 1, 2025

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the agency would rescind the 2009 finding that says greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

Climate Change Health Trump 2.0 Your Environment Update

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

Flooding on a street, with street signs, under a bridge.

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

A large truck with NIOSH on the side, parked next to a building.

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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