Challenging Trump policy

By Jacob Fischler

A coalition of public health and environmental groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s recent finding that the Environmental Protection Agency could not regulate climate-warming greenhouse gases. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump announced last week the administration was finalizing a repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding, which declared the agency could regulate emissions, particularly those from vehicles, because climate change posed a danger to human health.

By Kate Sosin, The 19th

It’s unknown how many LGBTQ+ federal workers are suing the Trump administration for alleged discrimination, experts say. That’s because some of the suits are public, while others have been made as confidential complaints. But over the past year, the administration has faced a number of high-profile lawsuits over the ban on LGBTQ+ pride expression and refusal to let transgender workers use bathrooms that align with their genders. We review the cases advocates are watching the closest.

By Alex Brown

Five East Coast offshore wind projects that recently won court victories over the Trump administration have restarted construction, but they make up just a small fraction of states’ ambitious plans for offshore wind. And the dozens of projects that have yet to start construction have little chance of advancing while Trump remains in office.

By Anna Claire Vollers

In recent weeks, Republican and Democratic lawmakers in states have pushed legislation that would increase the penalties for disrupting religious services at houses of worship in the wake of a widely publicized incident last month at a Minnesota church. The recent push has sparked a constitutional debate: Critics on both sides of the political aisle say such measures infringe on the First Amendment right to free speech, even as supporters tout them as safeguards against those who would impede the free exercise of religion.