“Trump officials are analyzing whether to remove federal protections for national monuments spanning millions of acres in the West in order to spur energy development on public lands,” the Washington Post reports.

“Interior Department aides are looking at whether to scale back at least six national monuments.”

“White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s push for more domestic oil, gas and coal production,” Bloomberg reports.

“The effort comes alongside other administration moves to use the US tax code or government funding to single out groups that oppose the president’s agenda.”

“A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against its Dakota Access Pipeline,” the New York Times reports.

“The verdict was a major blow to the storied environmental organization. Greenpeace had maintained that it played only a minor part in demonstrations led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. It had portrayed the lawsuit as an attempt to stifle oil-industry critics, but a jury apparently disagreed.”

“A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from pulling $14 billion in climate grant funding out of accounts at Citibank, where it has been held since late last year,” the New York Times reports.

“The Environmental Protection Agency said that it was canceling $20 billion in grants for climate and clean energy programs that have been frozen for weeks, a move that was labeled illegal by nonprofit groups that were supposed to receive the funds,” the New York Times reports.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will announce Wednesday that he is overhauling the “Endangerment Finding,” a 2009 rule signed by Barack Obama’s EPA administrator Lisa Jackson that declared greenhouse gases constitute a threat to public health and human welfare under the Clean Air Act, National Review reports.

“Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Monday he canceled 400 environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling $1.7 billion in the Trump administration’s latest crackdown on DEI initiatives,” Reuters reports.

“Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US,” The Guardian reports.

“In a few short weeks, President Trump has severely damaged the government’s ability to fight climate change, upending American environmental policy with moves that could have lasting implications for the country, and the planet,” the New York Times reports.

“With a flurry of actions that have stretched the limits of presidential power, Mr. Trump has gutted federal climate efforts, rolled back regulations aimed at limiting pollution and given a major boost to the fossil fuel industry.”

“He is abandoning efforts to reduce global warming, even as the world has reached record levels of heat that scientists say is driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels. Every corner of the world is now experiencing the effects of these rising temperatures in the form of deadlier hurricanes, floods, wildfires and droughts, as well as species extinction.”

“Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to strike down a scientific finding underpinning much of the federal government’s push to combat climate change,” the Washington Post reports.

“The 2009 ‘endangerment finding’ cleared the way for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act by concluding that the planet-warming gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. Both the Obama and Biden administrations used that determination to set strict limits on emissions from cars and power plants.”

“President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that his administration would reverse former President Joe Biden’s efforts to make a host of consumer products more efficient, from toilets to showerheads — including reverting back to incandescent light bulbs no longer made in the United States,” Politico reports.

President Trump said Friday he would sign an executive order next week to undo a Biden-era plan to phase out plastic straws by 2027, Politico reports.

“President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms,” Politico reports.

“Local officials had to talk the Army Corps of Engineers down after it abruptly alerted them Thursday afternoon it was about to increase flows from two reservoirs to maximum capacity — a move the agency said was in response to Trump directing the federal government to ‘maximize’ water supplies.”

New York Times: Trump officials release water in California that experts say will serve little use.