What is the status of our energy transition? Is our ability to fight climate change doomed?
is the climate editor of Vox. She has written and edited at the intersection of climate change, community and conservation for outlets including High Country News, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and Capital B News among others. Donald Trump made his energy plans pretty clear during the campaign: more fossil fuels, fewer environmental protections, and a full-on retreat from global climate cooperation. Nearly 100 days into his second administration, he has moved with dizzying speed to fulfill those promises. On Day 1, he pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement, making it the only country to walk away from the global pact to limit warming (again). His administration slashed or froze funding for clean energy development — particularly wind — that Congress had already approved. At the same time, Trump has aggressively pushed fossil fuel expansion, declaring a national "energy emergency" to ram through oil and gas projects, and has even proposed reversing the Environmental Protection Agency's…