5 Trump Policies Making Extreme Weather More Dangerous

The Trump administration’s energy and environmental policies are accelerating climate change — and a warming planet means more extreme weather. 

The stakes could not be higher for Americans; these disasters are costing lives. 

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Photo Credits: The 1.4-gigawatt coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant located in Roane County, outside of Kingston, TN. (Paul Harris / Getty Images) Logging operations in the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. (Randi Shaffer / USDA Forest Service) Big Horn Wind Farm (Iberdrola Renewables, Inc./NREL) Farmer Barry Evans examines the soil at a cotton crop he shredded and planted over with wheat. Extreme heat and a dearth of rainfall had severely damaged much of the 2022 cotton harvest in the U.S. (Eric Gay / AP) Farmworkers weed a bell pepper field in the sun as southern California faced a heatwave in 2024. (Etienne Laurent / AFP via Getty Images)

Video credit: A helicopter extinguishing a wildfire on a mountain at night. (Getty Images)